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  • Bruce Springsteen I met her in a Kingstown bar.
    We fell in love, I knew it had to end.
    We took what we had and we ripped it apart.
    Now here I am down in Kingstown again.
    The River (1980) Hungry Heart
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • John Masefield I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Grandma Moses I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
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  • Jane Austen I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Al Neuharth I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • Stephen Hawking I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
    The Guardian (15 May 2011)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Douglas Macarthur I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • George Sand I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Bryan Brown I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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  • Orson Welles I started at the top and worked my way down.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • E. M. Forster I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
    Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) A Book That Influenced Me
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • E. M. Forster I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Harold Pinter I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Anne Tyler I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Robertson Davies I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Assata Shakur I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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