Elspeth Huxley Quotes
The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.
Elspeth Huxley
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
Damien Chazelle
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
Halsey
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
Farley Mowat
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A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
Ted Lindsay
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
E. O. Wilson
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We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.
Margaret Fuller
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Natural law is not applicable to the unseen world behind the symbols, because it is unadapted to anything except symbols, and its perfection is a perfection of symbolic linkage. You cannot apply such a scheme to the parts of our personality which are not measurable by symbols any more than you can extract the square root of a sonnet.
Arthur Eddington
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Plymouth, Gwenda thought, as she moved forward obediently in the queu for Passports and Customs, was probably not the best of England.
Agatha Christie
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.
Audre Lorde
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Mary Douglas
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I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.
Luke Wilson
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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Christopher Fry
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
Donald Miller
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My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia.
Laurie Graham
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
Haniel Long
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I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt... I love it.
Clive Davis
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The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.
Elspeth Huxley
