Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

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• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

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• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
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• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
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• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
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• Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
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• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
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• I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Beginning
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• Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
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• If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Good
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• When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
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• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
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• Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Painting
  • End
  • Bridge

• 'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • She
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• People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
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• It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Nature
  • Small
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• What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman's private choice... I don't support federal funding for abortions, nor do I support late-term abortions.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Support
  • Empathy

• It’s not about creating an equal country, but it is about stopping the development of an underclass cut off from the rest of society. This focus could be a straight forward set of things like a living wage, supporting more effective pathways into work and an effective benefits system.

  

  Jo Cox
  • Work
  • Country
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• And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Rest
  • Heaven
  • Blue