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"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog... all right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"When you have a child, the world has a hostage." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
"If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
"Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
"If you're not thinking about a negative thought, your vibration is going to raise to its natural positive place." - Ester and Jerry Hicks
"The beast, like all of you, chooses freedom first. And if ever the physical condition becomes less than joyful, the beast, if left to himself, will re-emerge into Non-Physical." - Ester and Jerry Hicks
"The whole tribe of philosophers have fallen into the fame error with Locke. Some of them, who pretend that every perception leaves an image in the mind, in the same manner almost as a seal leaves its impression behind it, are not to be excepted: for what is the image of a perception, which is not the perception itself? The mistake is owing to this, that for want of having sufficiently considered the matter, they have mistaken, for the very perception of the object, some circumstances, or some general idea, which revive themselves in its stead. To avoid such mistakes, I shall here distinguish the different perceptions we are capable of feeling, and examine them each in their proper order." - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page." - Eudora Welty
"Every writer, like everybody else, thinks he's living through the crisis of the ages. To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most." - Eudora Welty
"I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot had far more to do with how things fared in my congregation than my choice of texts in preaching. I was being lied to and I knew it." - Eugene Peterson
"That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it." - Eugene Peterson
"A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
"If we succeed in cleaning up the environment, we donÂ’t have enough money for war. But Americans are basically pro-war. WeÂ’re a violent people and we like it." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"I've developed a total loathing for McCain, conceited little asshole. And he thinks he's wonderful. I mean, you can just tell, this little simper of self-love that he does all the time. You just want to kick him." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions..." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"Professor Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equivalent Fox News." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"Cooperative industry in which all shall work together in harmony as the basis of a new social order, a higher civilization, a real republic. That is the demand." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
"Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on Earth." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
"I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
"I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
"Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body." - Euripedes NULL
"At the door of the dining-room he left us. 'Good night, Mr Jorkins,' he said. 'I hope you will pay us another visit when you next cross the herring pond.' 'I say, what did your governor mean by that? He seemed almost to think I was American.' 'He's rather odd at times." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
"But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
"IÂ’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I canÂ’t shut myself out from His mercy." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
"It is not, however, enough to be acquainted with the grave dangers facing these United States. We must also instruct ourselves, and others, in the great spiritual values underlying our divinely inspired Constitution and our American free-enterprise system." - Ezra Taft Benson
"It is now two hundred years since the Constitution was written. Have we been wise beneficiaries of the gift entrusted to us? Have we valued and protected the principles laid down by this great document? At this bicentennial celebration we must, with sadness, say that we have not been wise in keeping the trust of our Founding Fathers. For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions." - Ezra Taft Benson
"With independence won, another body of men assembled; and under the inspiration of heaven, they too drafted a document, probably the greatest instrument ever struck off at a given time by the mind of man: the Constitution of the United States." - Ezra Taft Benson
"And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
"Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence." - Faith Baldwin
"The frontier of the higher life is everywhere contiguous to the common life, and we can cross the border at any moment. The higher life is as real as the grosser things in which we put our trust. But our eyes must be anointed so that we may see it." - Felix Adler
"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings." - Gustave Flaubert
"If you participate in life, you don?t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubbornness in denying that maxim." - Gustave Flaubert
"We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!" - Gustave Flaubert
"My material life is simple." - Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra
"A bachelor is one who wants a wife, but is glad he hasn't got her." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
"Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody." - Hans Rosling