Philip Guedalla Quotes
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
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Nietzsche is never boring. He is always interesting, exciting, thrilling, glittering, breathtaking. He possesses a kind of brilliance and tempo which I believe was unknown in former times.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
