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  • Curtis Carlson I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Mark Twain I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ann Beattie I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • A. E. Housman I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
    ISBN: 9780198184966 The Letters of A. E. Housman (2007 edition), Oxfor
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Joan Didion I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Aristotle I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Dudley Nichols I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
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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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  • Anne Tyler I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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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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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
    Grunch of Giants (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • C. S. Lewis I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Charlie Chaplin I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anthony Trollope I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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