Elias Lyman Magoon Quotes
An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
Quotes to Explore
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice
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To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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I constantly look like a miserable bitch.
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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.
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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
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The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but what would two middle-aged people do that for? We were sensible enough when we got it.
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An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
