Elias Canetti Quotes
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
Waite Hoyt
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
Oliver Stone
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James
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When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
Dan Deacon
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When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
Paula Abdul
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I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Ornette Coleman
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Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?
P. J. O'Rourke
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When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.
Elias Canetti
