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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is. — Om Puri

The riskiest yet rewarding thing is to paint in our head of how our life is going to be. — Sarvesh Jain

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. — William Empson

The heart of standing is you cannot fly. — William Empson

Trust your fears Rho. Believing in them makes you safe. — Romina Russell

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly. — William Empson

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you. — William Empson

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves. — William Empson

Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture. — William Empson

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. — William Empson

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson

I don't want to be your first, Fallon. I want to be your last. — Colleen Hoover

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. — John Muir

I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more. — Mike Crapo

At the very least you should tell yourself the truth. If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? — Sarah Dessen

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better. — Daniel Johns

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them. — William Empson

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. — William Empson

Style has become very important, the whole idea of style, what your personal style is. It's your identity. — Patricia Field

Anything which deceives is evil, I believe. — Dan Simmons

Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. — Alex Storozynski

I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. — William Empson

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it. — William Empson

All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell. — William Empson

Poetry contains nothing haphazard. — William Empson

Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that. — Tom Ford

Clouds very high look
not one word helped them get up there — Ikkyu

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. — William Empson

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. — William Empson

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson

You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there. — William Empson