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  • Buffalo Bill My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • KäThe Kollwitz No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
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  • George Eliot No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Novels are longer than life.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Anne Bronte Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Alfredo La Mont Old Age: That period in life when we no longer care where our wife is going, as long as she doesn't want us to come along
    Reader's Digest, February 1992
    Alfredo La Mont
    American writer
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  • Adlai Stevenson II On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
    The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson (1965) door Robert L. Polley, p. 61
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Robert Wilson Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was - nobody any longer wanted to be that.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Michel de Certeau One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Norman Vincent Peale One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • E. M. Forster Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Harold Rosenberg Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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