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I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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