Antonio Porchia Quotes
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck
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You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
Samira Wiley
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The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.
Andrea McLean
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And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.
Betty Hill
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In the United States, it is unmistakable that young people have broken away from the political right and have gravitated to more leftist-populist figures like Bernie Sanders.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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Some people aren't sure what to make of it.
Lisa Kudrow
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Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.
Lisa Unger
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
Eleanor Clift
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Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
Adrian Rogers
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I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.' He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. 'We are from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout.
John Gardner
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Let's take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Steals ere we can effect them.
William Shakespeare
