Antonio Porchia Quotes
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.
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High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
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I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
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I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
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Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.
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I see a man's life is a tedious one.
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
