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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#enjoy #learn #life #more #others

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. ↗

— George Eliot

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#done #due #feel #half #harm

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

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Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

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But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement. ↗

— Lindy Boggs

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I just didn't want to admit that he was dead. ↗

— Lindy Boggs

#dead #i #just #want

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. ↗

— Sissela Bok

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