Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
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Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.
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I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.
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He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
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There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.
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Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
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The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.
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I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.
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New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.
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While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.
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Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
