Soul Quotes
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Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
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Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
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I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
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Sufficiently entranced, she will pass the day somewhere else, in a world that understands her unelaborate hopes and grants to the lonely soul of the loveless, graceful peace.
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We need each other, We believe in one another, And I know we're gonna uncover, What's sleeping in our soul...
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My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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I want to do what I feel in my soul. My soul won't lead me wrong.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.
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But it was long ago and it was far away,Oh god, it seems so very far.And if life is just a highwayThen the soul is just a car.And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
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From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
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You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:'
