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"So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear."
"The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other."
"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."
"My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner."
"To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life."
"Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change."
"As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor."
"Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end."
"If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish."
"There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or that just because you haven't already had success but I feel like anyone can do anything they put their mind to as long as they stay devoted and stay passionate."
"If you rest too long the weeds take the garden."
"I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it"
"One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right."
"Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true."
"Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality."
"Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult."
"Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world."
"I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling."
"If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid."
"You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!"
