#mos

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#most #reputations #ruined

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. ↗

— William Blake

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When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. ↗

— Diogenes

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