Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Gore Vidal All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Carl Bernstein All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • David Gemmell All legends have a base in fact.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Ralph Ransom All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • William Mathews All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
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  • Carson Mccullers All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Rebecca West All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Sir Walter Scott All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Albert Camus All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Henry Miller All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ezra Pound All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Oprah Winfrey All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • A. R. Rahman All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here.
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  • Abraham Lincoln All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Curtis Carlson All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Billy Graham All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ted Turner All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
    Ted Turner
    American media mogul and philanthropist (1938 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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