#lasting

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#believe #fifty #had #i #i am

The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#establishing #keep #lasting #lasting peace #out

I want to merge a Phoenix with a Camel to create the world's first everlasting cigarette. It'll be a cigarette that rises from its own ashes, so you can keep smoking it indefinitely. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cigarette #everlasting #funny #humor #immortality

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#greek #lasting #latin #marble #must

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack. ↗

— John Fogerty

#guy #her #his #how #i

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age. ↗

— Ben Johnson

#lasting #read #written #age

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. ↗

— Franz Werfel

#between #dialogue #everlasting #god #humanity