"If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist."
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"Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's text."
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"I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish."
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"However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers."
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"If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams."
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"But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me."
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"If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian."
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"I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway."
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"You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount."
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"It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'"
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"It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it."
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"For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new."
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"If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise."
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"I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom.""
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"You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."
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"It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology"
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"A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system."
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"Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?"
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"Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not."
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"Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all."
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