Charlotte Mew Quotes
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
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Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it's specifically hers.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
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Adult novels was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.
