Edmund Morris Quotes
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When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
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What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones
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Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
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If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
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And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
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Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
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What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?
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Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
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The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .
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Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.
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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Each man believes only his experience.
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If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.
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A stocky figure in a frock coat sprang up the front steps of the White House.
