Elsa Triolet Quotes
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
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A real secret is something which only one person knows.
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Defend my honor - Protect my pride
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The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
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I'm not worried about where I rank between other QBs in the league.
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Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.
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You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
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Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.
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If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.
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To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
