Quotes 61 till 80 of 426.
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
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Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Born down in a dead man's town;
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up.Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA -
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall
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But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
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But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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