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But oh! Shipmates! On the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.
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But oh! Shipmates! On the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.
My opposition lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago, and have several things to finish which I put off to twenty years hence.
One can only blaspheme if one believes.
There's really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn't make a difference because I'd just be running from myself, and you can't do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music. Then in that respect you can call me that. I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.