#ken

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies. ↗

— Ben Affleck

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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#chicken #egg #everything #get #key

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#dickens #friends #greatest #many #mark

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#chicago #like #loving #nose #woman

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#broken #had #his #johnson #man

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#chance #disaster #discovery #each #fulfillment

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#change #directly #enterprise #friends #himself

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. ↗

— Antiphanes

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I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#better #i #intended #never #picture

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

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