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There's more to light than the opposite of dark. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

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I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life. ↗

— Mark Oliphant

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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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