Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
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For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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Cancer is always funny.
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All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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When we come to poetry, we can't fancy a more poverty stricken predicament.
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A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.
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I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.
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I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding.
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Hell is other people, said the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and he wasn’t even a fat guy.
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It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
