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Janet Frame quote: "Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing..."

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

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Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind. Gary Lockwood
Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously. James Herriot
Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better. Louis C. K.
The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it? that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know. Saul Bellow
John Mayall quote: "I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the..."
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. John Mayall
It had occurred to me to follow her through into the next room, visitors or no visitors, and bring her back for a talk. But in the end I had decided in favour of waiting where I was for her return. Sure enough, a few minutes later, Sophie had come back into the room, but something in her manner had prevented me from speaking and she had gone out again. In fact, although during the following half-hour Sophie had entered and left the room several more times, for all my resolve to make my... Kazuo Ishiguro
Donna Reed quote: "What we look for in the school is unrealized potential."
What we look for in the school is unrealized potential. Donna Reed
Judd Apatow quote: "I still feel like a nerd."
I still feel like a nerd. Judd Apatow
Ayn Rand quote: "Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to..."
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn Rand
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. Robert Morgan
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. Herman Hesse
Phaedrus quote: "An alliance with a powerful person is never safe."
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. Phaedrus
It is a hard service they take that help me. Many that are red-cheeked now will be pale-cheeked; many that have been free to walk the hills and the bogs and the rushes will be sent to walk hard streets in far countries; many a good plan will be broken; many that have gathered money will not stay to spend it; many a child will be born, and there will be no father at its christening to give it a name. They that had red cheeks will have pale cheeks for my sake; and for all that, they will think... William Butler Yeats
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Every reign must submit to a greater reign."
Every reign must submit to a greater reign. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Walter Scott quote: "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly..."
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. Walter Scott