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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

~Edmond Rostand

Topics: Alone Dream Interest Life Without

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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

~Edmund Barton

Topics: All The Difference Alone Between Difference Hand Letting Other Public Public School School School System System Them Up

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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

~Edmund White

Topics: Alone Always Became Criterion Decided Discouraged First Forgetting Got Market Me Much New New Yorker Novel Part Please Problem Published Sole Something Too Too Much Would Write Writer Wrote Yorker Young

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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

~Edouard Manet

Topics: Alone Believe Canvas Concentrate Difficult Figure Hardly How Interest Keep Living Place Real Single Still Universal Would You

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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

~Edward Abbey

Topics: Alone Beat Bona Dumb Man Nothin Pretty Real Sometimes Stupidity Teamwork

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I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

~Edward Bryant

Topics: Alone Also Between Cats Distinction Each Else Feeling Genuine House Know Like Loneliness Lonely Make Many Need Other Someone Than Times Want

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I was never less alone than when by myself.

~Edward Gibbon

Topics: Alone Less Myself Never Than

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I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

~Edward Grey

Topics: Alone Ambassador Austria Became Between Concerned Did Directly Dispute Entitled Europe Feel German Intervene Long Matter Only Peace Question Russia Said Serbia Us Which

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The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Alone Based Between Circuit Exist Experience How Idea Kind Meaning Needs Place Poem Poems Poet Poetry Read Reader Takes You

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Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

~Edward Hoagland

Topics: Afraid Alone Bears Black Case Encountered Exhilaration Feeling Felt Him House Hunter Just Night Picked Road Stones Though Two Up Vermont

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