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Exlpore more May quotes
"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
May,
"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
May,
"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,
"Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village."
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
"What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along."
May,
Explore more quotes by Eartha Kitt
"When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth."
"Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty."
"Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat."
"I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away."
"Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things."
"Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did."
"I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer."
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