"I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do."

Christie, Agatha on Ability
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"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

Belloc, Hilaire on Books - Reading
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"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested."

Bacon, Francis on Books - Reading
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"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself."

Moreau, Jeanne on Acting and Actors
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"Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist."

Moreau, Jeanne on Acting and Actors
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"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."

Weitzman, Geri on Creation
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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Ali, Muhammad on Imagination
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"First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying"

Unknown, Source on Life and Living
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"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."

Wilde, Oscar on Martyrdom
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"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

Augustine, St. on Freedom
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"When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck."

Howe, Edgar Watson on Trust
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"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

Shakespeare, William on Agents
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"The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it."

Twain, Mark on Silence
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"Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously."

Morrow, Lance on Negotiation
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"I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below."

Bardot, Brigitte on Death and Dying
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"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."

Darrow, Clarence on Death and Dying
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"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Disappointments
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"Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."

Orwell, George on Progress
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"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."

Bancroft, George on Slander
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"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Passion
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"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."

Harris, Sidney J. on Cynics and Cynicism
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"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires."

Franklin, Benjamin on Ambition
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"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."

Magnus, Saint Albertus on Anger
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"Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Unknown, Source on Anger
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"Anger cannot be dishonest."

Bach, George R. on Anger
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"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on Hatred
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hesse, Hermann on Hatred
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

Pancoast, Mal on Truth
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"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."

Day, Clarence on Enthusiasm
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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

Fuller, Thomas on Life and Living
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