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Paul Newman: I was always...

Paul Newman: I was always...

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

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Alan Alda: It's too bad...

Alan Alda: It's too bad...

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like...

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Oscar Wilde: What between the...

Oscar Wilde: What between the...

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land...

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Wole Soyinka: Suddenly the world...

Wole Soyinka: Suddenly the world...

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind

Source: Kongi's...

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Robert Bolt: It profits a...

Robert Bolt: It profits a...

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!

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John Donne: No man is...

John Donne: No man is...

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away...

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Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet's pen all scorn I should...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give...

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Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr: Let lessons of...

Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.

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Joseph Brodsky: A language ....

Joseph Brodsky: A language ....

A language . . . is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Source: In...

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Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Source: Collected Poems.
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Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.


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Ogden Nash: Life is not...

Ogden Nash: Life is not...

Life is not having been told
That the man just waxed the floor.


Source: In...

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Jean Anouilh: All evil comes...

Jean Anouilh: All evil comes...

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

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Jean Anouilh: I like reality....

Jean Anouilh: I like reality....

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

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

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Martial: Live thy life...

Martial: Live thy life...

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Source: Epigrams, 7,...

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Miguel de Cervantes: Don't put too...

Miguel de Cervantes: Don't put too...

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Source: In...

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Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be...

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Thornton Wilder: The test of...

Thornton Wilder: The test of...

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now I've got myself into an...

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