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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Topics

Universe Than Our Views Wider

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

Together Soul Body Go May

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

Poetry Surprise You Create Jazz Try

People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person.

People Person Say Hollywood My Own

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

Matthew Desmond

Time Losing Writing Battle Living

The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.

Child Mom Golden Same May Sensitive

Usually when you act, you know where you're going, where the point is.

You Know Point Act Where Going

Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

Steven Amsterdam

Me Writing Book Contract Break Been

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Adventure Intellectual Rather Than

I'm glad I went through the 'TUF' experience.

Experience Through Glad

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Find Way Copyright Big Laws Our

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Control Language Body Person Mature

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

I Am Muse Wonderful Driven Alimony

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