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Lines

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Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist

"Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one."

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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist
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"Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines."

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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
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"Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur."

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Mark Pryor Politician
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"Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well."

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Blake Roney Entrepreneur
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"I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have."

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