"I can't start writing until I have a closing line."
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"I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing."
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"No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea."
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"By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything."
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"Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines."
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"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life."
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"I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word."
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"I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything."
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"What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?"
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"Make a decision and then make the decision right. Line up your Energy with it. In most cases it doesn't really matter what you decide. Just decide. There are endless options that would serve you enormously well, and all or any one of them is better than no decision."
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"For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line."
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"I never quite toed the line."
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"If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death"
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"I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids."
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"The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line."
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"I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated."
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"If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women."
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"We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code."
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"There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw."
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"As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much."
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