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Emily Dickinson: Dying is a...

Emily Dickinson: Dying is a...

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Stanislaw Lec: Don't cry out...

Stanislaw Lec: Don't cry out...

Don't cry out for help at night -- you might awaken the neighbors.

Source: In...

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Stanislaw Lec: You must first...

Stanislaw Lec: You must first...

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Source: In 20,000...

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Eugene Ionesco: It isn't what...

Eugene Ionesco: It isn't what...

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

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William Wordsworth: Great God! I'd...

William Wordsworth: Great God! I'd...

Great God! I'd rather be
A pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have...

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Emily Dickinson: Anger as soon...

Emily Dickinson: Anger as soon...

Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat.


Source: Poems, Second...

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Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

A Wounded deer - leaps highest.

Source: 1860; Poems, First Series, 1890.
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Emily Dickinson: I . ....

Emily Dickinson: I . ....

I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass...

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Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And...

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Emily Dickinson: That it will...

Emily Dickinson: That it will...

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.


Source: poem no....

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Ogden Nash: In the world...

Ogden Nash: In the world...

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for...

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Ogden Nash: Remorse is a...

Ogden Nash: Remorse is a...

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Source: A Clean Conscience Never...

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Ogden Nash: The most exciting...

Ogden Nash: The most exciting...

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

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Ogden Nash: Basketball, a game...

Ogden Nash: Basketball, a game...

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to...

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Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to...

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Thornton Wilder: Literature is the...

Thornton Wilder: Literature is the...

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Source: In Time, 12 Jan 53
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Thornton Wilder: One of the...

Thornton Wilder: One of the...

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or...

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Alexander Pope: All seems infected...

Alexander Pope: All seems infected...

All seems infected that th'infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.


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Alexander Pope: As some to...

Alexander Pope: As some to...

As some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.


Source: An...

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