Edward Dorn famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.
-- Edward Dorn
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
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I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
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I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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Scientist alone is true poet.
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