Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.
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The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
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I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
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What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
