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  • William Nicholson We read to know that we are not alone.
    Shadowlands (1993)
    William Nicholson
    British playwright, screenplay and novelist (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Boyd We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Marlin Finch Lupus We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never-ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
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  • Charles J. Fillmore We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • Tryon Edwards We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • James Baldwin We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carl Honore We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Arthur Hiller We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Ali Smith We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
    (2012)
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Orson Welles We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Ben Platt We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Richard Whately Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Billy Gibbons Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Brian De Palma Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Louisa May Alcott What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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