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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Complain Thorn Can Rose
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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

Slow Break Progress Natural
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Language Prose Cinema Movie
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his life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.

Perfectly Attribute Causes Pain
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Happen Lip Their Came
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Voice Amber Yearn Burn
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We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Rose Magical Blooming Garden
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

Paper Tedious Difficult Form
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Truths and roses have thorns about them.
About Roses Them Thorns
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There are usually advantages and disadvantages seen in every facet of life. Don’t expect everything to be all roses.

Expect Life Facet Seen
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Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Able Dearest Dream Fly
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.

Anything Broadcasting Charlie Coffee
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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Friend Garden Rose Single
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

Biology Curious Evolution Existence
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

More Must Never Plant
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Textile Built Woven Composed
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Conceal Hold Incumbent Material
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I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.

Am Amongst Barbarians Believe
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Beautiful Beauty Caused God
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Everything's coming up roses - for me.
Coming Everything Me Roses
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While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

Cheek Maiden Roses Thought
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Age Between Candidate Distinction
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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

Right World Proceed Africa
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

After Bed Catalogue Description
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Bloom Blooms Constantly Dark
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Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

Ever Since Beginning Rock
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Age Friends Gave Leaves
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Poetry Prose Logic Mystery
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Style Prose Fancy Count
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Also Better Cabbage Idealist
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments.

Morality Empirical Defense Society
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.

Again Because Christ Come
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Christ Death Desire Died
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Bears Depends Important Life
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Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always Even Poet Prose
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Body Essence Gives His
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Sweet Smell Name Rose
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Prose Adages Verse Which
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Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.
Today Heart Trembling Stars
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

Revolution Roses Struggle Future
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Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
Life Paradoxes Roses Thorns
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I would blossom if I were a rose.
Blossom Rose
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Fun Games Guy I Love
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Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.

Blow Trumpets Same thing Ask
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I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.
Attention Draws Itself Produce
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