Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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We don’t forgive being as we are.
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Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.
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I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
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Christ means Krishna, love of Godhead, Who has His face annointed with tilak.
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
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You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?
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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.
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The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.
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Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
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I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.
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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
