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Yul Brynner: When I am...

Yul Brynner: When I am...

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, I have arrived. Because when you feel that...

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Marlon Brando: To grasp the...

Marlon Brando: To grasp the...

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his...

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Richard Burton: When I played...

Richard Burton: When I played...

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was...

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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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John Russell: A proverb is...

John Russell: A proverb is...

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Source: Attributed.
-- John...

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John Barrymore: My wife was...

John Barrymore: My wife was...

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

Source: In Webster's...

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Humphrey Bogart: I remember every...

Humphrey Bogart: I remember every...

I remember every detail. The Germans wore grey. You wore blue.

Source: To Ingrid...

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Paul Newman: So you wound...

Paul Newman: So you wound...

So you wound up with Apollo
If he's sometimes hard to swallow
Use this.


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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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Stephane Mallarme: Dreams have as...

Stephane Mallarme: Dreams have as...

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis...

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Robert Bridges: For beauty being...

Robert Bridges: For beauty being...

For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of...

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Vachel Lindsay: This is the...

Vachel Lindsay: This is the...

This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: --
To speak of bloody power as right divine,
And call on God to guard...

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William Watson: And must I...

William Watson: And must I...

And must I wholly banish hence
These red and golden juices,
And pay my vows to Abstinence,
That pallidest of...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets...

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Eliza Cook: I love it,...

Eliza Cook: I love it,...

I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?


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George Moses Horton: Alas! and am...

George Moses Horton: Alas! and am...

Alas! and am I born for this? To wear this slavish chain?

Source: On Liberty and...

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George Moses Horton: Because the brood-sows...

George Moses Horton: Because the brood-sows...

Because the brood-sows left side pigs were black
Whose sable tincture was by nature struck.
Were you by justice...

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Hesiod: A bad neighbour...

Hesiod: A bad neighbour...

A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.

Source:...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Men love ....

Geoffrey Chaucer: Men love ....

Men love . . . newfangledness.

Source: The Squire's Tale,'' in 'The Canterbury...

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Joseph Brodsky: There are worse...

Joseph Brodsky: There are worse...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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