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Diane Ackerman quote: "It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect..."

It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves," he lamented.

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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor. Samuel Gompers
But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates. Robert B. Laughlin
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn. Throws up a steamy column and the cups. That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in. William Cowper
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You are human and fallible. Charlotte Bronte
Come writers and critics. Who prophesize with your pen. And keep your eyes wide. The chance won't come again. And don't speak too soon. For the wheel's still in spin. And there's no tellin' who. That it's namin'For the loser now. Will be later to win. For the times they are a-changin'. Bob Dylan
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me. Lara St. John
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Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. Bruce Lee
GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and curren? Tom Stoppard
It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music. Honore de Balzac
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Maria was staring at me like I was wearing purple socks. ‘Wow,” she said. “That’s exactly what music is.’ And then she started crying again. But this time, she wept quietly. ‘You understand,” she said. 'You really understand. Sherman Alexie
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. Erica Jong
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We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that? J. K. Rowling
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. Charles Dickens