Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them. - Gore Vidal

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Much learning does not teach understanding. - Heraclitus

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When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his. - Ella Maillart

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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

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Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. – Bryan Stevenson

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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. - Heraclitus

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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. - Heraclitus

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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.- Heraclitus

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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. - Heraclitus

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