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"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
"I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock."
"When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature."
"Death is the mother of forms."
"It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good."
"the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is."
"Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge."
"That which has no limitations, has no form."
"This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been."
"To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness."
"Short things are short all over and long things are long all over."
"All great art is a form of complaint"
"Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension."
"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."
"Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
"This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form."
"Singing is the lowest form of communication."
"Every man carries the entire form of human condition."
"Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world."
"Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms."
