The snow was falling heavily outside. I sat before a blank page for close to ten hours. I refused to get up; instead attempted with great pains to coerce stubborn thoughts from my noodle. Useless it seemed until the 11th hour and then all I'd seen and felt and heard, arrived, and was transcribed effortlessly like the tune of chirping birds.
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Whatever honor there is in giving up, I want no part of.
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We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. Ideas of the Stone Age exist side by side with the latest scientific thought. Only a fraction of mankind has emerged from the Dark Ages, and in the most lucid brains, as Logan Pearsall Smith has said, we come upon nests of woolly caterpillars. Seemingly sane men entrust their wealth to stargazers and their health to witch doctors. Giant planes throb through the stratosphere, but half their passengers are wearing magic amulets and are protected from harm by voodoo incantations. Hotels boast of express elevators and a telephone in every room, but omit thirteen from all floor and room numbers lest their guests be ill at ease.
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The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.
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If people here really read my work then maybe they wouldn't want to honor me so much.
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'Jules Verne was not the 'mad scientist' some thought him to be. In several of his novels he showed great concern for the dangers of technology/pollution caused by the oil industry/the imminent extinction of whales, and in his 1901 novel 'The Village in the Tree Tops' he exposed the slaughter of elephants for their ivory!'
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Beauty, to me, is an esoteric energy that I can't fully comprehend. I'm surrounded by inexplicable beauty all the time.
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You know, I only ever wrote when I had something to say. So I still feel that on occasion I have something to say.
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There is nothing more satisfying than being able to understand.
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All I ever really tried to do is speak the truth.
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I have said and I continue to say that it's getting worse. I hate to say that because it suggests that there's been no change.
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All the girls love her. It's nice having a mom everybody likes.
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I think I'm a stand-up comic and I don't really care what people think.
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I don't call myself a poet because I hope I can do more than be a poet.
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Poor neighborhoods all look the same: run-down, graffiti covered, garbage strewn, crime-riddled etc. Affluent ones all look the same as well: clean, crime-free, big homes, expensive cars, manicured lawns. Why the hell then doesn't everyone vote like an affluent!
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I don't write as a profession.
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I can say that everything I've ever written has been an effort to speak with integrity and to say things I feel are genuinely true.
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Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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Notice the painful lashes upon your shoulders, done so solely by the crop attached to your belt.
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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The bottom line is that if we had any idea that the teacher had any inappropriate behavior in his past, he would not have been hired here. That's the reason for the questions ? to flesh out problems in the past.
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What of this world but joys and sorrows.
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That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
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He probably came back in the best condition of any of our guys. He had some success last year and wanted to build on that. He's matured. He likes the offensive stuff we do. And defensively we give him some freedom to show his athletic ability.
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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
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She looks like something that would eat its young.
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Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
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Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouthTame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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