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Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.
One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.
My wife was fitted with a coil. For about 18 months I hated it! She used to pick up CB signals.
I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.
The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?
But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.
It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.
Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.
When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.
Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.
It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."
Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.
There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can't replicate.
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.