Emilie Loring famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.
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Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived.
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It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.
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You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.
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I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better.
-- Emilie Loring
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Achievement has no color
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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
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Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
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The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
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The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.
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The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.
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