The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Cyril Connolly
Recitation: by Male by Female
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
John Grierson
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Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
Mayim Bialik
StyleParentingYouChooseMatter
Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
Maurice Sendak
BestEnjoyGoKnowWhyUp
The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.
Roger Altman
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Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, 'I love these characters'.
Roger Avary
LoveMyselfWorldYouSaidWrite
I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.
Juice Wrld
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If someone leaves me a bad review, I briefly fantasize about pushing them down a well.
Lisa Hanawalt
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When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live there, you feel seen. Not just the good things you've done, the stuff you put on your resume. You know they've seen you in your dark times, when you've messed up - but they're still there.
Dean Ornish
FamilyGoodLiveGood ThingsGrow
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
Christopher Hitchens
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No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
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I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
Piers Anthony
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I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.
Philip Pullman
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