Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 27600.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
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A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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