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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
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One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra -
One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
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One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like a child.
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One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.
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