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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Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people.
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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
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Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.
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One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.
