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  • Thomas Carlyle In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bjork In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Cynthia Ozick In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Herodotus In soft regions are born soft men.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Joni Mitchell In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Mark Twain In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Simone Weil In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Bill Skarsgard In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Bette Davis In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Ben Hecht In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Calvin Coolidge In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Caitlin Moran In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Blake McIver Ewing In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.
    Blake McIver Ewing
    American singer-songwriter, actor and pianist (1985 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alberto Giacometti In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Toni Morrison In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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