Bolesław Prus Quotes
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
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Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.
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Humor is the harmony of the heart.
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I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!
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Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.
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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
