Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
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Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.
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The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.
