All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honore de Balzac

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I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

Honore de Balzac

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Climbing, Hatred, Heart, Human, Slippery, Stops

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head…And I don’t think that should get any easier.

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Bill Cosby

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and. . . mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

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How wondrously supernatural, And how miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel.

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Larry Gelbart

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

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Sam Neill

You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

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