Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening … - Joseph Addison

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I was a photographer first. I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

Joseph Addison

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

Listening, Moon, Repeats, Stories, Takes, Tale

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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Important, Master, Mind, Powerful

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Gives, Giving, Ideas, Lively, Sight, Words

Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

Character, Death, Opportunity, Party, Personal, Till

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

Christmas, Fall, Happens, Roger, Winter

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

Beautiful, Kings, Reflect, Sorrow, Tombstone, World

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Agnes Varda

I was a photographer first. I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

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Bill Jay

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an interference pattern with the image. Who he is, what he believes, not only becomes important to know intellectually, but also becomes revealed emotionally and visibly through a body of work.

Photography, Attitude, Believe, Intellectually, Invisibly, Visibly

Anna May Wong

I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me.

Conclusion, Everybody, Including, Marry, Marry Me, Should

Matthew Quick

Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?

Children, Stillborn, Struggle, Teaches, Teenager, Television

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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist. . . he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love. . . poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.

Beautiful, Comrade, Honest, Mirrors, Reflection