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In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

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Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

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We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

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How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

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Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

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I will not take 'but' for an answer.

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Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

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The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

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None of them going to treat me bad, honey, I'm too strict for that.

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Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

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Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.

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I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

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Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

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As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

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I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

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