"We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity."

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Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar (2009). “The Uncalled (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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“Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.”
“No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.”
“If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.”

Source : Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media
“We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.”
“I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.”

Source : "About A Boy's David Walton explains how Fired Up! won the L.A. Lakers a championship". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2014.
“It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.”

Source : Jay Haley (1969). “The power tactics of Jesus Christ, and other essays”
“Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.”
“Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.”

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