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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
Morning

"Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future."

School Morning Summer
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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
Morning

"Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder."

Writing Song Morning
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Morning

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial."

Morning Philosophy Gita
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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
Morning

"My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write."

Writing Jobs Morning
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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
Morning

"I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's."

Mean Morning Ego
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Morning

"When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better."

Morning Ordinary Lovely
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Morning

"One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed."

Country Morning Opera
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Morning

"A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep."

Morning Sleep Peace
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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
Morning

"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?"

Heart Morning Tired
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John Burroughs Naturalist, Writer
Morning

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

Inspirational Morning Gratitude
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Morning

"When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?"

Fall Stars Morning
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John Keats Poet
Morning

"Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime."

Beautiful Morning Happiness
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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Morning

"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."

Men Stars Morning
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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Morning

"If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning."

Night Feelings Morning
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Billy Wilder Film Director, Screenwriter
Morning

"Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio."

Writing Morning Rain
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Russell Wilson American Football Player
Morning

"My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'"

Morning Dad Balls
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Paul Merton Comedian, Actor
Morning

"When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won."

Thinking Morning Monday
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Morning

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."

Life Spiritual Morning
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Morning

"The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below."

Men Inspirational Morning
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