Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
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I always have stress.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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No, but you can see it from here.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.
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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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Everything I loved became everything I've lost.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
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There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
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Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.
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I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.
