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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
May

"I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet."

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Russell Baker Writer
May

"There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
May

"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more."

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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
May

"Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line."

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L. Frank Baum Author
May

"For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days."

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May

"Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
May

"love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you"

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Kami Garcia Author
May

"I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew"

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
May

"They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
May

"From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron."

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H. G. Wells Writer
May

"Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous."

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Haile Gerima Filmmaker
May

"You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful."

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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
May

"A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage."

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