Wells Quotes
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The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.
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All's well if all ends well.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
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One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
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The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
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If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
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The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
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Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
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Well, we'll know better next time.
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Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
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What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
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If one cannot imagine Obama saying such a thing — well, he didn't.
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Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious
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I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing.
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So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.
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I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.
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Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit.
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I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
