Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of it. But when ones soul is full, and only a little sheet, to put it into, it is so aggravating. There are so many things I want to say, and feel with you, that I dont know where to begin.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
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The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.
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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
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Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
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Music has always been really important to me.
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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
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When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
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You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
