Jane Austen Quotes
'I am afraid', replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
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I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
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I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.
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I consider myself more exportant than important.
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I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.
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How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye – The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.
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All I ask the haters – is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences, it might come to resemble love.
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'I am afraid', replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
