Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 28471.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 13 -
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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