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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room. ↗

— Jack White

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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek. ↗

— Vanna White

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#before #did #discover #everything #importance

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#fractured #full #goal #need #only

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. ↗

— August Wilson

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There is no better high than discovery. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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