"I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity."
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"with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good."
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"When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did."
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"Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round."
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"We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance."
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"Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare."
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"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks."
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"Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine."
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"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency."
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"I talk out the lines as I write them."
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"To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending."
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"I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading."
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"To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American."
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"The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief."
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"Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry."
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"From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers."
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"If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment."
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"Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage."
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"There's a fine line between participation and mockery."
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"I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere."
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