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They could see she was a real princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a princess could be so delicate Picture Quote #1

Then they knew that the lady they had lodged was a real princess, since she had felt the one small pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather-beds, for it was quite impossible for any one but a true princess to be so tender Picture Quote #1

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! There he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky Picture Quote #1

Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in the Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable Picture Quote #1

I would make any sacrifice but this; twenty times I can stake my life, even my honour, but my freedom I shall never sell. Why do I prize it so much?... What am I aiming at? Nothing, absolutely nothing Picture Quote #1

I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. and as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... Was nuts! and for the first time ever, I went, wow, it's not me! Picture Quote #1

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A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten Picture Quote #1

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it Picture Quote #1

Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth Picture Quote #1

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty fifth of this month, that the divinest heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of heaven's making Picture Quote #1

When the first baby laughed for the first time, it's laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born it's first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl Picture Quote #1

There was Lenin, looking like a cherub in his blonde curls. Then Lenin in his twenties and thirties, bald and uptight Picture Quote #1

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Twentieth century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets Picture Quote #1

He never went mad in your sense. My dear fellow, you're very much wrong if you think there was anything pathological about him - then. The man was brilliantly sane. His mind was as keen as a keen sword. I couldn't understand him, but I could judge of his sanity right enough Picture Quote #1

Oh, I agree he went mad in the end. It is the only explanation. Something must have snapped in that fine brain, and he saw the little bit more which we call madness. Thank God, you and I are prosaic fellows Picture Quote #1

My childhood here... Was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn Picture Quote #1

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I Picture Quote #1

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha Picture Quote #1

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Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker Picture Quote #1

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers Picture Quote #1

Early twentieth century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good Picture Quote #1

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included Picture Quote #1

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music Picture Quote #1

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life Picture Quote #1

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I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty six what my boyfriend calls the real way Picture Quote #1

On the law that requires women to wait twenty four hours before they are permitted to have an abortion: I think it's a good law. The other day I wanted to go get an abortion. I really wanted an abortion, but then I thought about it and it turned out I was just thirsty Picture Quote #1

This struggle to preserve the old creeds, cultures, and countries of the West is the new divide between Left and Right; this struggle will define what it means to be a conservative. This is the cause of the twenty first century and the agenda of conservatism for the remainder of our lives Picture Quote #1

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good natured Picture Quote #1

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics Picture Quote #1

We Americans are the best informed people on Earth as to the events of the last twenty four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries Picture Quote #1

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They could see she was a real princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a princess could be so delicate (Went Quotes) Then they knew that the lady they had lodged was a real princess, since she had felt the one small pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather-beds, for it was quite impossible for any one but a true princess to be so tender (Went Quotes) So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! There he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky (Went Quotes) Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in the Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable (Went Quotes) I would make any sacrifice but this; twenty times I can stake my life, even my honour, but my freedom I shall never sell. Why do I prize it so much?... What am I aiming at? Nothing, absolutely nothing (Went Quotes) I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. and as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... Was nuts! and for the first time ever, I went, wow, it's not me! (Went Quotes) A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten (Went Quotes) I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it (Went Quotes) Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth (Went Quotes) Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty fifth of this month, that the divinest heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of heaven's making (Went Quotes) When the first baby laughed for the first time, it's laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born it's first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl (Went Quotes) There was Lenin, looking like a cherub in his blonde curls. Then Lenin in his twenties and thirties, bald and uptight (Went Quotes) Twentieth century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets (Went Quotes) He never went mad in your sense. My dear fellow, you're very much wrong if you think there was anything pathological about him - then. The man was brilliantly sane. His mind was as keen as a keen sword. I couldn't understand him, but I could judge of his sanity right enough (Went Quotes) Oh, I agree he went mad in the end. It is the only explanation. Something must have snapped in that fine brain, and he saw the little bit more which we call madness. Thank God, you and I are prosaic fellows (Went Quotes) My childhood here... Was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn (Went Quotes) They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I (Went Quotes) I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha (Went Quotes) Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker (Went Quotes) A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers (Went Quotes) Early twentieth century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good (Went Quotes) Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included (Went Quotes) And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music (Went Quotes) I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life (Went Quotes) I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty six what my boyfriend calls the real way (Went Quotes) On the law that requires women to wait twenty four hours before they are permitted to have an abortion: I think it's a good law. The other day I wanted to go get an abortion. I really wanted an abortion, but then I thought about it and it turned out I was just thirsty (Went Quotes) This struggle to preserve the old creeds, cultures, and countries of the West is the new divide between Left and Right; this struggle will define what it means to be a conservative. This is the cause of the twenty first century and the agenda of conservatism for the remainder of our lives (Went Quotes) From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good natured (Went Quotes) At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics (Went Quotes) We Americans are the best informed people on Earth as to the events of the last twenty four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries (Went Quotes)

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