Quotes with half-there

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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Barbara Bush To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Albert Camus To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • George Orwell To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Pascrell Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Billy Eckstine Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Gore Vidal Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Beck Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bobby Davro Too much comedy is filthy these days. There's nothing they won't say. I like Jimmy Carr, but I don't like the language he uses. I don't understand why he feels it necessary; I find it extremely offensive.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Robertson Davies Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Vita Sackville-West Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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  • Antonio Machado Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
    Antonio Machado
    Spanish writer and poet (1875 - 1939)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Hobbes True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
    Leviathan (1651)
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Buddha True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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