Antonio Porchia Quotes
Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
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Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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And I wrote to you, Laila. Volumes. -
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A disciple said to him, 'I am ready, in the quest for God, to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?' The Master calmly replied, 'One's beliefs about God.'
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.
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In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
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Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
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Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.
