Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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One of my favorite times of year is around Christmas when my entire family gets together and we make tamales together. It's a full two-day event, and we create an assembly line. It's awesome because everyone has his or her own part in making the dish. It's so much fun.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.
