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Personally, I wouldn't go anywhere important without my own favorite Hermès black bag... I have my jewelry with me in case something happens and I suddenly have to dress up. For me, going out without that purse would seem almost like going out naked. Well, almost.
Charlotte Chandler - It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock -
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
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Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38 -
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
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