Jane Austen Quotes
She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
Orhan Pamuk
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
Larry Wall
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When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.
Nancy Kress
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.
Gerd Gigerenzer
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Do something active that's fun. On tour with Kanye and Common, we would have basketball games on a court in every city we went to. With Alicia Keys, we would mountain-bike across Vancouver Island. With Lady Gaga, we would explore all the cool neighborhoods.
Harley Pasternak
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
Edward Abbey
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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
Jane Austen