"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."

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"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."

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"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."

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"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."

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"Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die."

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"Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy."

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"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."

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"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

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"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."

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"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."

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"All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look."

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