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Anne Carson Poet

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"He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet."

Difficult Poet Gertrude

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality

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"Venezuela is another place I'd like very much to go, which is proving very difficult. I have not been there to make a show and I'd like to, very much."

Shows Difficult Venezuela

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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist

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"Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult."

Difficult Wit Retaining

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

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"The naming of cats is a difficult matter"

Matter Cat Difficult

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Vincent Van Gogh Painter

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"It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either."

Easy Difficult Paint

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Sheryl Lee Actress

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"It's still difficult for me to watch my work."

Watches Stills Difficult

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Steven Morrissey Singer-Songwriter

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"I find Christmas very difficult."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

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"Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?"

Wonder Difficult Wow

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Madonna Ciccone Singer

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"Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go."

Sleep Difficult Letting Things Go

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Ice T Rapper, Actor

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"You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about. It's pop and pop just says that we could be actors. We could sing about stuff and not believe in it. It could be absolutely fraudulent and it doesn't really matter."

Believe Song Difficult

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Indira Gandhi Politician

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"The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate."

Writing Difficult Letters

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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian

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"My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved."

Views Difficult Achieve

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Graham Joyce Author

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"Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box."

Difficult Boxes Sprung

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea."

Ideas Doe Difficult

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with."

Silence Difficult Silence Is

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes."

Eye Difficult Simplest

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet

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"In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words."

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet

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"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?"

Trying Life Difficult

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist

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"Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end."

Ends Difficult

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist

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"Though life is very glorious, it is difficult."

Life Is Difficult Glorious

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