"Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world."

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Source : "Poet Emily Dickinson Was A Much Loved Baker". "All Things Considered" with David Greene, kclu.org. December 27, 2016.

Christopher Benfey

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Kind Quotes

“fish and visitors stink in 3 days.”
“An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.”
“History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.”
“I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
“The man who is successful is the man who is useful.”
“Be who you are - whatever you are.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.”
“Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.”

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