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My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives. ↗

— Diane Keaton

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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. ↗

— John Keats

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. ↗

— John Keats

#decline #ever #great #land #sea

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. ↗

— John Keats

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. ↗

— John Keats

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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. ↗

— John Keats

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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. ↗

— John Keegan

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The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

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It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help. ↗

— John Keegan

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