Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
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Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.
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Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.
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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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There are no statues erected to critics.
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I understand the boos. It was one of the toughest things I had to do leaving here. I am also very excited about where I am now.
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I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't.
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I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.
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Find something you love to do. Work it to the bone. And you'll be successful.
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The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
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I have always tried to sense the mood of the people, their needs, their attitude toward ways to solve problems, their priorities. That's mainly what I go by. And I think that's the most important thing in any person's work, in the work that the people of Russia entrusted in me.
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It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
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When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.
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Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
