Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!

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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.
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When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
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I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.
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I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
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The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
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I have a rude thought every three seconds!
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We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!