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lying hate people
Rebecca West There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.
lying book reading
Umberto Eco The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
lying book reflection
Umberto Eco Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
lying political hours
Willie Brown In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
lying ideas choices
Woody Allen If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.
lying boys views
Woody Allen This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.
lying reality people
Woody Allen It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?
lying military criticism
William Westmoreland I don't take criticism lying down.
poetry published volume wrote
Tony Buzan In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.
poetry despair born
Jose Bergamin The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
poet persons
Jorge Luis Borges He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.
poetry lines serious
Jonathan Swift From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.
poetry has-beens
Henry David Thoreau My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
poetry mastery logic
James Russell Lowell It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
poet theory feels
John Ciardi What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
poet lays values
Caroline Norton Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.
poetry would-be world
Muriel Rukeyser If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.