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Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

Edward Franklin Albee III
American playwright (1928–2016)

Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

Edward F. Albee
American vaudeville impresario

Edward Franklin Albee II was an American vaudeville impresario.
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden
Irish critic and poet (1843-1913)

Edward Dowden was an Irish critic, professor, and poet.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward de Bono
Maltese physician (1933–2021)

Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and philosopher. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats, and was a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.
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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
American author and essayist (1927-1989)

Edward Paul Abbey was an American author, essayist, and environmental activist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include Desert Solitaire, a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing; the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-warriors; his novel Hayduke Lives!; and his essay collections Down the River (1982) and One Life at a Time, Please (1988).
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She gained fame with a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. A road accident in 1936 left her partially disabled, as well as both morphine and alcohol-dependent.
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l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She gained fame with a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. A road accident in 1936 left her partially disabled, as well as both morphine and alcohol-dependent.
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller
English poet and politician (1606-1687)

Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who was Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and one of the longest serving members of the English House of Commons.
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Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller
English poet and politician (1606-1687)

Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who was Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and one of the longest serving members of the English House of Commons.
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Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.

Edmund Spenser
English poet (1552–1599)

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.
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