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Delmore Schwartz: I should like...

Delmore Schwartz: I should like...

I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful...

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Ovid: Seeking is all...

Ovid: Seeking is all...

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for...

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Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

Frances Watkins Harper: There is material...

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it...

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Christina Rossetti: Who has seen...

Christina Rossetti: Who has seen...

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads.
The wind is passing...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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James Earl Jones: When I read...

James Earl Jones: When I read...

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything...

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James Earl Jones: Your own need...

James Earl Jones: Your own need...

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

Source: Voices...

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Harrison Ford: It was great...

Harrison Ford: It was great...

It was great fun working on that stuff with [Sean Connery]. It was a question of just give and take, passing the ball...

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Denzel Washington: Luck is where...

Denzel Washington: Luck is where...

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Source: In Words of the Week, Jet, 7...

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Humphrey Bogart: I was born...

Humphrey Bogart: I was born...

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved...

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Spencer Tracy: This mug of...

Spencer Tracy: This mug of...

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

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John Barrymore: You can only...

John Barrymore: You can only...

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Steven Seagal: It doesn't work...

Steven Seagal: It doesn't work...

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes...

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Ben Stein: Nothing happens by...

Ben Stein: Nothing happens by...

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by...

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George S Kaufman: I understand your...

George S Kaufman: I understand your...

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

Source: Remark to Howard...

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James Matthew Barrie: As soon as...

James Matthew Barrie: As soon as...

As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being...

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James Matthew Barrie: Always try to...

James Matthew Barrie: Always try to...

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Source: In Readers'...

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James Matthew Barrie: The secret of...

James Matthew Barrie: The secret of...

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

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Christopher Fry: Run on, keep...

Christopher Fry: Run on, keep...

Run on, keep your head down, cross at the double
The bursts of open day between the...

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David Mamet: People may or...

David Mamet: People may or...

People may or may not say what they mean. . . but they always say something designed to get what they...

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