Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 1544.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963) -
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.
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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
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Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.
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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a forward child, that must be play'd with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
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When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (1964 edition), Atlantic Monthly Press -
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
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When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.
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When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.
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When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.
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When I walk down the street I bet people will say there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in the game.
The Natural pt. 1
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