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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
MARK VAN DOREN

To be what no one ever was,To be what everyone has been:Freedom is the mean of thoseExtremes that fe...
MARK VAN DOREN

The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversi...
MARK VAN DOREN

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that...
MARK VAN DOREN

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
MARK VAN DOREN

The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion...
MARK VAN DOREN

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes th...
MARK VAN DOREN

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly ...
MARK VAN DOREN

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is ...
MARK VAN DOREN

Though we all know that the survival of the species depends on producing children, up until now we h...
MARK VAN DOREN

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
MARK VAN DOREN

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that...
MARK VAN DOREN

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversio...
MARK VAN DOREN

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
MARK VAN DOREN

Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... the companion....
MARK VAN DOREN

Evolutionarily, germ cells are one of the most ancient cell types, needed by every type of animal to...
MARK VAN DOREN Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ...
MAMIE VAN DOREN I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
MAMIE VAN DOREN My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
MAMIE VAN DOREN I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to...
MAMIE VAN DOREN It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
MAMIE VAN DOREN

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
CARL VAN DOREN

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
CARL VAN DOREN

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
CARL VAN DOREN I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to f...
CARL VAN DOREN

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
CARL VAN DOREN Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
CHARLES VAN DOREN

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught n...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tal...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; histor...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from t...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the liter...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the ...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and tha...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service ...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the ...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and tha...
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
CARL DOREN The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to f...
CARL DOREN The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts into his work
CARL DOREN A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
CARL DOREN The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
CARL DOREN Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
CARL DOREN One reason why fiction is a human necessity is that it satisfies many unconscious as well as conscio...
MORTIMER J. ADLER AND CHARLES VAN DOREN Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chic...
DONALD VAN DE MARK Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative w...
DONALD VAN DE MARK

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON

What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON

The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON

hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON

From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN

[In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON

His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
VAN MORRISON

[10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
VAN MORRISON

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close t...
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show to damage people, to slander people. That is n...
ANITA VAN I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to...
VAN TURNER Science marches slowly, and my biggest fear all along has been that another specimen of the same ani...
VAN TURNER Give Nicole Powell credit for making a great shot,
VAN CHANCELLOR I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is ...
ANITA VAN Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
VAN TOFFLER We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,
VAN HORN It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so...
VAN ALSTYNE That's how my career has been, ... It's been a battle with ups and downs.
VAN ALSTYNE It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been ...
VAN ALSTYNE a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE Great Days of Service.
VAN ALSTYNE My doctor was discouraged because the drugs that I had been taking had so many side effects, ... And...
VAN ALSTYNE There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless...
VAN ALLEN The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.
VAN ALLEN We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team compet...
VAN ALLEN I couldn't be more proud of the way we're competing right now.
VAN ALLEN Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.
VAN ALLEN We are looking forward to doing a little better. We have to recharge our batteries.
VAN SWEET I guess that the homework has not been done very well.
VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN She didn't concede, and I think that was probably appropriate.
VAN COLEMAN Blake is going to be our starting third baseman. He's on a mission. I told him third base could be h...
VAN HORN It's sort of the 19th century equivalent of a blow horn, ... It was used primarily as a form of comm...
BOBBY VAN You know, every time you visit a facility, you see things that are really great, ... We don't want t...
BOBBY VAN We want to go out into different areas of the county, where it's more accessible for citizens, to gi...
BOBBY VAN I understand they've come up with some more numbers on fuel costs, but I would still like to look fo...
BOBBY VAN It would be better to issue COs than to want for the federal government to order us to build somethi...
BOBBY VAN It was approved by the president's council and the white paper was accepted.
VAN HUYSSTEEN I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.
VAN CHANCELLOR The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.
VAN HARDEN I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused ...
VAN TURNER Absolutely a good idea, but I'd recommend using a grout stain instead.
VAN PURCELL

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
VAN MORRISON I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors, ... They approached this from the po...
VAN BAKER The accessory market, I don't see them going into that in a widespread basis with lots and lots of p...
VAN BAKER

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
VAN MORRISON Jump!
VAN HALEN

and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
VAN MORRISON I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors. They approached this from the point ...
VAN BAKER has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.
VAN CLEVE First and foremost, Xbox 360 is a game machine, and so is anybody going to go out and buy an Xbox 36...
VAN BAKER Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappea...
VAN MORRISON They would often pull on his beard and say he must be the real Santa Claus,
VAN ORDEN He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
VAN JONES It's always the goal to come out and win. The field is definitely improving. I mean, all across the ...
LINDSAY VAN I just tried to focus on what I really needed to do. I haven't been feeling too well lately, but it ...
LINDSAY VAN Drew had a big day. He did a good job playing first base for us and made some things happen at the p...
VAN ARNOLD The media market it fragmenting like crazy right now,
VAN BAKER We do have great depth, and great depth is good,
VAN CHANCELLOR has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.
VAN CLIBURN He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting tou...
VAN COLEMAN Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on ...
VAN HEFLIN Hunters need to remember that there are many other folks spending time outdoors during early Septemb...
VAN HORN Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we did...
VAN HOLT The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, ...
VAN HUYSSTEEN I can't help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I'm not going to take i...
VAN JOHNSON An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.
MARK Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.
DRIES VAN NOTEN Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
DRIES VAN NOTEN I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
TOWNES VAN ZANDT

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes an...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rew...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was gr...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend ...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that t...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly wh...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through l...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad j...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led ...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
VAN WYCK BROOKS

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wh...
VAN WYCK BROOKS

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
VAN WYCK BROOKS

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
VAN WYCK BROOKS

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
VAN WYCK BROOKS

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

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