George Whyte-Melville Quotes
The life upon which youth fancies itself entering is very different from the life which age refuses to acknowledge it is on the eve of quitting.
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I've never been a partier.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I like to dress up every now and then.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.
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Our performance, relatively, is likely to be better in a bear market than in a bull market … in a year when the general market had a substantial advance, I would be well satisfied to match the advance of the averages.
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I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
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I think one of the things if you look at minimalism or expressionism, there's various movements in modern composition that I think you can see really natural relations in pop music, so I mean I always look to that in pop music.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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I know there is strength in the differences between us,And I know there is comfort where we overlap.
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It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies - who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two - that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.
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One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
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The life upon which youth fancies itself entering is very different from the life which age refuses to acknowledge it is on the eve of quitting.
