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Charles V: My cousin Francis...

Charles V: My cousin Francis...

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

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Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Source: More or Less about Myself,...

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Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...

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You compose because...

You compose because...

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive,...

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Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Source: Interviews with...

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Charles Peguy: Freedom is a...

Charles Peguy: Freedom is a...

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Georges Seurat: Originality depends only...

Georges Seurat: Originality depends only...

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each...

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Marie Curie: One never notices...

Marie Curie: One never notices...

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done . . .

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John Ford: Busy opinion is...

John Ford: Busy opinion is...

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

Source: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, act 1, sc. 1,...

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The violinist must...

The violinist must...

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers...

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Rainer M Rilke: No one in...

Rainer M Rilke: No one in...

No one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: It's raining my...

Guillaume Apollinaire: It's raining my...

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

Source: La Nuit...

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Bruce Barton: If you have...

Bruce Barton: If you have...

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own...

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Imelda Marcos: I was no...

Imelda Marcos: I was no...

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to...

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Omar Bradley: The world has...

Omar Bradley: The world has...

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical...

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Margot Asquith: It is always...

Margot Asquith: It is always...

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race...

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There's a world...

There's a world...

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

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Bruce Barton: If advertising encourages...

Bruce Barton: If advertising encourages...

If advertising encourages people tc, live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

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Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Source: In...

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James Forten: It seems almost...

James Forten: It seems almost...

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to...

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