The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabic Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it. ~Franco Nero
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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Two guests cannot be entertained satisfactorily at the same time. ~African Proverb
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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God delays but doesn't forget. ~Spanish proverb
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Anger with our friend, rather than constant friendship with our enemy. ~Arabic Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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