#be

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. ↗

— Joan Collins

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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ↗

— Anne Frank

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For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. ↗

— Judy Collins

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I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. ↗

— Judy Collins

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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important. ↗

— Judy Collins

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If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help. ↗

— Judy Collins

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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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