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"A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line."
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"...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written."
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"Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner."
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"To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing."
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"I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens."
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"My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them."
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"There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines."
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"For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line."
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"Every step of the way we walk the line Your days are numbered, so are mine Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape"
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"If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish."
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"For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches."
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"A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity."
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"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."
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"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught."
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines."
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"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
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"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines."
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"For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted."
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"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels."
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