Margaret Wise Brown Quotes
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
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The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.
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Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
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The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear.
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Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.
