Quotes with half-there

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  • Oscar Wilde I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alban Berg I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
    Alban Berg
    Austrian composer (1885 - 1935)
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  • Bruno Mars I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Alice Munro I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Bryan Batt I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • W. H. Auden I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Joan Didion I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
    Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bryan Cogman I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Sir Thomas Browne I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Christopher Marlowe I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Ben Gibbard I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There's no need to veil what's happening in the song the way I used to.
    My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
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  • Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Hecht I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Anthony Doerr I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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