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Isaac Bashevis Singer quote: "The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what..."

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

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My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. Vivien Leigh
He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without... John Steinbeck
Graham Hill quote: "I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush."
I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush. Graham Hill
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. Robert McChesney
Edward Everett Hale quote: "If you have accomplished all that you have planned for..."
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. Edward Everett Hale
I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things. V. S. Naipaul
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. Paulo Coelho
God's a busy guy. He don't have time to micromanage. What are the chances he heard that? It's early in the morning. He's probably having breakfast with Mrs. God. Janet Evanovich
Alvin Dark quote: "In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it...."
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that. Alvin Dark
I have graded my separate works from A to D. The grades I hand out to myself do not place me in literary history. I am comparing myself with myself. Thus can I give myself an A-plus for Cat’s Crade, while knowing that there was a writer named William Shakespeare. The report card is chronological, so you can plot my rise and fall on graph paper, if you like: Player Piano B The Sirens of Titan A Mother Night A Cat’s Cradle A-plus God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater A Slaughterhouse-Five... Kurt Vonnegut
It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set. Norm Coleman
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. Joseph Campbell
Emma Watson quote: "Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't..."
Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time! Emma Watson
I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive. Kay Bailey Hutchison
Jim Hodges quote: "Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest..."
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. Jim Hodges