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It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything. — Morton Irving Seiden

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away? — Kate Morton

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's. — Kate Morton

It was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled. — Kate Morton

You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war, — Kate Morton

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. — Kate Morton

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles. — Morton Feldman

The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure. — Morton Blackwell

They had money, but don't you go talking about class. — Kate Morton

It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation. — Kate Morton

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. — Morton Feldman

She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal. — Kate Morton

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again. — Kate Morton

Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success. — Gene Morton

People are fascinating, aren't they, the closer you get to knowing what makes them tick? — Kate Morton

When you love someone you'll do just about anything to keep them. — Kate Morton

Those who live in memories are never really dead. — Kate Morton

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy. — Morton Blackwell

To hear years of one's life, one's passion, described so casually, relegated so absolutely to the past, was breathtaking. — Kate Morton

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script. — Joe Morton

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. — Kate Morton

There were moments in which a person reached a crossroads, when something happened, out of the blue, to change the course of life's events. — Kate Morton

American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11 — Frans De Waal

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866. — Henry Morton Stanley

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play. — Joe Morton

It's the past. Thoughts and dreams, hopes and hurts, all brewed together, fermenting slowly in the fusty air, unable ever to dissipate completely. — Kate Morton

The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes — Kate Morton

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself. — Kate Morton

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future. — Kate Morton

She had found there were very few genuinely dull people; the trick was to ask them the right questions. — Kate Morton

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion. — Kate Morton

It matters not, for she did not need her eyes to tell her who she was. She knew it by your love for her. — Kate Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished. — Andrew Morton

I am not a storyteller ... not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. — Kate Morton

Even if she loathes it. To do so would be akin to denying the existence of an awkward child. — Kate Morton

An expression of infinite wisdom, as if, in those first days of life, the small person retained the knowledge of a lifetime just passed. — Kate Morton

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them. — Joe Morton

I love you so much, so much," he mutters. "It's always been you. It always will be. — Lily Morton

Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever. — Samantha Morton

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it. — Kate Morton

Adults weren't supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did. — Kate Morton

People who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances. — Kate Morton

I understand well the peculiar guilt of tragedy's survivors. — Kate Morton

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another. — Kate Morton

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me. — Samantha Morton

I can't imagine facing the end of the day without a story to drop into on my way towards sleep. — Kate Morton

Contemporary warfare, then, is best practiced by the professional serial killer. — Frederic Morton

It's not about the money with me. — Samantha Morton

Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer. — Kate Morton

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster. — Samantha Morton

who does any unauthorized act in relation — Kate Morton

A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally. — Morton Blackwell

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. — Kate Morton

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood. — Samantha Morton

In spiritual matters we remain beginners. — Morton T. Kelsey

I love the structural part of the writing process. — Kate Morton

We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people. — Morton Shaevitz

The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned. — Kate Morton

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. — Lisa Morton

Full of life and light; blissfully unaware of all the future had in store. — Kate Morton

I feel like a von Trapp," Ruby said between puffs, "But fatter, older and with absolutely no energy for singing. — Kate Morton

She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. — Kate Morton

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future. — Julius Sterling Morton

No one has the Houdini school of composition. — Morton Feldman

You will know your job is done well when it goes unnoticed, that you have succeeded when you are unnoticed. — Kate Morton

You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years. — Brian Morton

And time thickened so that the seconds passed like years. — Kate Morton

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society. — Samantha Morton

He was far more comfortable reading about the lives and ideas of others than describing his own. — Kate Morton

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing. — Brian Morton

Our bodies are stardust; our lives are sunlight. — Oliver Morton

The test of moral ideas is moral results. — Morton Blackwell

He was a scribble of a man. — Kate Morton

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard. — Samuel George Morton

I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him. — Tasha Smith

Expand the leadership. — Morton Blackwell

People come to my places to eat dinner with their friends, not with me. — Peter Morton

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career. — Joe Morton

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else. — Kate Morton

Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout. — J.B. Morton

The young are quick to presume themselves the exclusive possessors of all strong feelings. — Kate Morton

Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog. — Morton Blackwell

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. — Morton Hunt

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it. — Morton Feldman

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense — Morton Blackwell

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings. — Kate Morton

We are all victims of our human experience," Alice continued, "apt to view the present through the lens of our own past. — Kate Morton

The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them. — Morton T. Kelsey

That was were the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots. — Kate Morton

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. — Henry Morton Stanley

He disapproved of the metaphor: he wanted to tell her that one shouldn't compare one's personal unhappiness to the most horrible crime in history. — Brian Morton

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed. — Morton Blackwell

As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget. — Kate Morton

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets. — Kate Morton

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say? — Kate Morton

Frailty begot frailty. Nothing caused lightheadedness so surely as day after day of stifling confinement. — Kate Morton

Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way. — Kate Morton

Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there were worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion. — Kate Morton

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough. — Morton Blackwell