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The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog") Stephen Crane
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas? no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all. Alexander Dumas
E. B. White quote: "When you say something, make sure you have said it. The..."
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair. -E.B. White E. B. White
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing..."
Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. Laurell K. Hamilton
Meister Eckhart quote: "If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough."
If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough. Meister Eckhart
Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art itself, and the proper expression of emotions, was the most SUBLIME thing in the world, he thought political power and wealth only served one purpose: to make art possible. Haruki Murakami
One should adopt only those situations in which is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand - or escape Friedrich Nietzsche
Alvin Ailey quote: "To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the..."
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. Alvin Ailey
The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present. Martin Amis
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story. Mario Vargas Llosa
Of Swelter's acreage, only a perch or two here and there might, if broken, prove vulnerable loam. That he bled profusely could prove little. There was blood in him to revitalize an anaemic army, with enough left over to cool the guns. Placed end to end, his blood vessels might have coiled up the Tower of Flints and half way down again like a Virginia creeper -- a vampire's home from home. Mervyn Peake
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews. Bertrand Russell
Cornelia Funke quote: "Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the..."
Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose? Cornelia Funke
For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty. Arthur Machen
Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty. If we say we can, we’re lying. If we say No, we don’t see it, That No will behead us And shut tight our window onto spirit. So let us rather not be sure of anything, Beside ourselves, and only that, so Miraculous beings come running to help. Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute, We shall be saying finally, With tremendous eloquence, Lead... Rumi

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