Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule - From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE - out of TIME.
Quotes to Explore
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.
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I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.
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By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule - From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE - out of TIME.
