Quotes 141 till 160 of 921.
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But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
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By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex!
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
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Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
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Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
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