Edwin Way Teale Quotes
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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History can never be covered up.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.
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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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Truth is … one approach to the attainment of the good, but in and of itself, it is neither the good nor the beautiful … Socrates, Pascal, and others regarded knowledge of the truth with regard to purposeless objects as incongruous with the good … by exposing deception, truth destroys illusion, which is the principle attribute of beauty.
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You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.
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I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.
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I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.
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You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".
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With me being in so many pain from when you have a betrayal from your best friend - who was my husband - and the girl got pregnant, I couldn't even get out of bed. The only thing that saved me was my stand-up. I would get on stage and just talk about stuff, and I made people laugh. A lot of women e-mail me and say, 'How do you smile? How do you laugh at something like this?' That's how I do it. I laugh because that's how I get through pain.
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
