Anne Bronte Quotes
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
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I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.
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I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible
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People's guards were taken down because there was a new wrinkle. Never, ever give out your PIN number.
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I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.
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She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
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I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.
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Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'
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Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
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We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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So put me in a cage, lock me in a room. Throw away the key, I dare you. I’ll break down the walls, a high heel wrecking ball. And I won’t let you tear me down, no.
