Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I am not that big a method actor.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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We choose mania over boredom every time.
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As a Jew, support for Israel is in my DNA.
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God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
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My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
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When I was young, they said in the future that you'd just take a pill and never have to eat. That will never happen.
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I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
