Daniel Wallace Quotes
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you're talking to people and making small talk, I don't think that's where music comes from.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!
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Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?
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To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.
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Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
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When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.
