"Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else."

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Source : Marie Corelli (1905). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”

Marie Corelli

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“The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.”

Source : Lori Lansens (2006). “The Girls: A Novel”, p.119, Hachette UK
“There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.”
“If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.”
“I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.”
“We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.”
“John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him.”
“That's a headache waiting to happen.”
“Health and education are always issues.”

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