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John Irving quote: "Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them."

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

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Ma? is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he ha? a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best... Lionel Trilling
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I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. Loni Anderson
William Shakespeare quote: "Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye."
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye. William Shakespeare
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope. Haruki Murakami
Robert B. Parker quote: "I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day,..."
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. Robert B. Parker
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor... Vincent Van Gogh
The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus. Terry Savage
Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to avow them and half doubtful if they can after all be right. Put me back among my Friends and in half an hour - in ten minutes - these same views and standards become once more indisputable. The opinion of this little circle, while I am in it, outweighs that of a thousand outsiders: as Friendship strengthens, it will do this even when my Friends are far away. For we all wish to be judged by our... C. S. Lewis
I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an Octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying. L. M. Montgomery
Elizabeth Gaskell quote: "He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this..."
He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain. Elizabeth Gaskell
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, John Keats
If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without. Jacob Lew
Craig Bruce quote: "Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am."
Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am. Craig Bruce
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. Mignon McLaughlin
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I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. Georges Simenon