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• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Drawing, Silence, Insult

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• Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Cutting, Exclamation Points

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• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  Don DeLillo

  Cities, People, Watches

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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• I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Hipster, Addiction

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• I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Jobs, Hero

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• The constant happiness is curiosity.

  Alice Munro

  Inspirational Life, Curiosity, Constant

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• Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

  Philip Roth

  Pages, Way, Unexpected

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Dec 22, 2016

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• The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Struggle, Self, Expectations

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• In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic needs a model and that for Dante to write this great poem he needs someone to come before him and he turns to Virgil's text, especially book six where Aeneas goes down into the underworld. And for me, that's a model of the poet's relationship to previous poetry, to another poetry as calling out for guidance.

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Writing, Aeneas

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.

  Upton Sinclair

  Running, Lying, Thinking

  Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”, Lulu.com

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• Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.

  Ron Shelton

  Hero, Ordinary, Stories

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• Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of our world from colonialism. Of course the West never forgave Russia for fighting the epic battles against its expansionism and colonialism.

  Andre Vltchek

  Fighting, Russia, Our World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.

  Geoff Johns

  Character, Thrones, Kicking

  Source: www.ign.com

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• There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.

  Sofia Coppola

  Crush, Teenager, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.

  Zack Snyder

  Crush, Character, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny, Truth, Work

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Crazy, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Hunters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.372, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hunters, Way, Herpes

  Speech given to the University of Colorado Student Union, November 1, 1977.

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• The Black Parade is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

  Gerard Way

  Black, Albums, Records

  "My Chemical Romance Reveal Details About 'Daring' Concept LP" by Chris HArris, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2006.

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• The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Tools, March, Ends

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• A word to the wise is infuriating.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wise, Communication, Infuriating

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