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“There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.”
Source : Herb Caen (1991). “Best of Herb Caen: 1960-1975”, Chronicle Books (CA)
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“There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.”
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“I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world.”
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“He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!”
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“If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
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“A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.”
Source : 1972 Quoted in Ian Crofton (ed) A Dictionary of Art Quotations (1988).
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“And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the trees.”
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“You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.”
