Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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A true man hates no one.
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I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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Because my career has been based so much on my looks, when I finally pass my 'sell-by' date, I think I'll probably pack it in. Unless I make the changeover into playing witches or something, I don't see what career I can have.
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
