"It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 561), 1895.

John Bartholomew Gough

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“You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.”
“I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.”
“A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.”
“Inner beauty radiates from within, and there's nothing more beautiful than when a woman feels beautiful on the inside.”
“A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.”
“I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down.”
“Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.”

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