Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
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And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!
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But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.
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For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
