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Temptation Quotes
No story moves forward without something to resist.
This set treats temptation as the engine of drama, from a musician's score used in a well-known film to a novelist's claim that no plot works without it, see Desire quotes.
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As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
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A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.
- Reason
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
- People
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
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I can't resist temptation of any kind.
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