I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.


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EDWARD LEAR
The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT
I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD
I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE
I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK
He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG
All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG
Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG
One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG
Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER