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  • Ouida Eagles that love the high light-penetrated air,
    that has no dust and clog of earthborn dust,
    must ever dwell in solitude.
    Source: Chandos
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • George Orwell Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • C. S. Lewis Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
    Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Jean Kerr Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • John Dyer Ever charming, ever new, When will the landskip tire the view.
    Source: Grongar Hill 103
    John Dyer
    Welsh cleric, poet and painter (1699 - 1757)
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  • Anne Tyler Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Ivern Ball Ever notice that people never say 'It's only a game' when they're winning?
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Barbara Park Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Anita Desai Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Brad Feld Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Billy Gibbons Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Bella Freud Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Billie Jean King Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Berenice Bejo Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Cormac McCarthy Ever step you take is forever.
    Source: No Country for Old Men (2007) 227
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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