Category: writer
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It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
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We’re a phenomenally snobby society, and it’s such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.
J. K. Rowling
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Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
Leo Buscaglia
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It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
George Eliot
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
Deepak Chopra