- Sixties
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
- Quote
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- Excess
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is the supreme solace.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crown of literature is poetry.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have common sense and stick to the point.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
- Indifference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
- Lovely
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
- Dull
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
- Nov 07, 2020
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
- Jailer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020