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  • Joan Didion Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Carole King Now ain't it good to know
    That you've got a friend
    When People can be so cold.
    They'll hurt you, kiss and desert you.
    And take your soul if you let them.
    Oh, but don't you let them.
    Tapestry (1971) Youve Got a Friend
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Rebecca West Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Lord George Byron Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Blake Lewis Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell...I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.
    In interviews Hot Guy of the Week: American Idols Blake Lewis. U
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  • Harriet Tubman Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Blair Underwood Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
    Speech november 1942
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Malory Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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  • Ovid Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aaron Spelling Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Francis Bacon Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William Shakespeare O, had I but followed the arts!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Carl Forti Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
    Carl Forti
    American Republican Party strategist (1972 - )
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