Quote For The Day

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"Aye, lad, we all see it, but that don't mean it's real, necessarily."

Mainsman in Moby Dick

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"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."

Gaius Sallustius Passienus

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"Better to do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense."

Amelia Earhart

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"The noteworthy thing about this is that..."

Anything John Wyatt

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"The critic is the man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action."

John Mason Brown

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"It's not how you screw up, it's how you recover."

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Originally Posted by NSBOB1

"It's not how you screw up, it's how you recover."

Very true. Blowing your recover can be a problem.

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"Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so."

Jerry Saltz

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"History is written by the victors, we're told. In truth, history is written by the romantics, as stories are won by storytellers. . . . Aesthetes may lose the local battle, they usually win the historical war."

Adam Gopnik

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"There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways thar are hard to be exact about."

Eavan Boland