If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
~ Mickey Spillane
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Category Archives: 2358 – Quote Unquote
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l paint what cannot be photographed, and l photograph what l do not wish to paint.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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Our waking life’s desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~ Mark Twain
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The dead govern the living.
~ Auguste Comte
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The years teach much which the days never know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
~ T.S. Eliot
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You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.
~ A. J. Liebling
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England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
~ George Santayana
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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