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I could compose on white sheets, in longhand, but it would be an added handicap. . . .


William Styron

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DAVID KOTOK Only the old people write me in longhand!
BRETT SOMERS The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much....
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DEYTH BANGER Had I known that, it would have added fire to my indignation.
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TERRY FRANCONA The worst thing that could happen would be for the public to confuse the bees in white boxes with gr...
JERRY HAYES I think security would probably be an issue. It probably isn't, but it feels like it would be.
JAKE CHANIN I don't want it to stop, ... I can't handicap this thing.
VINCE VAUGHN I could be very bitter about it, but I don't think it would help me, ... People would get bored of l...
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STEVE NIELSEN Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.
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FAILTE but not an insurmountable one. It could probably be done in software.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES