Quotes 341 till 360 of 1059.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
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His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
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Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
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How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.
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I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121 -
I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.
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I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
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I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.
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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
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I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
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I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
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