Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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I'm an emotional person.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
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I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.
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The unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground has, as its necessary condition, self-abnegation and charity. Only by means of self-abnegation and charity can we clear away the evil, folly and ignorance which constitute the thing we call our personality and prevent us from becoming aware of the spark of divinity illuminating the inner man.
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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.
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It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
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The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
