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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Macdonald It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Alfred Adler It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Charles Dickens It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ben Zobrist It really comes down to God opening the doors for me, and I'm trying to walk through them doing the best I can.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard It seems that you live in someone else's dream
    In a hand-me-down wedding dress
    With the things that could have been are repressed
    But you said your vows and you closed the door
    On so many men who would have loved you more
    Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Anne Tyler It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Joan Baez It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • Anthony Doerr It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Alberto Giacometti It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Barack Obama It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben E. King It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Caitlin Stasey It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Bernard Cornwell It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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