"Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected."

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Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.160, Courier Corporation

Edgar Lee Masters

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“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
“I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.”
“I made a living being a background singer for years.”
“We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.”

Source : Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”
“I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People think by challenging me they're going to show they're tough. But I'm not tough. Decent drinker. Not such a bad kisser. But not a great fighter.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If its not fun, whats the point.”

Source : "Ayelet Zurer Talks DARLING COMPANION and Playing Superman’s Mother in MAN OF STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 20, 2012.
“In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.”

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