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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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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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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I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
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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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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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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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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.
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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!
