James Boswell Quotes
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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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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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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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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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
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When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.
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Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
