Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.
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I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
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You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
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Commanders are not always leaders. Commanders are appointed. Leaders are unofficially “elected” by the troops in the unit. Likewise in other fields of endeavor. Every leader is put through an informal process in the first few weeks wherein his people judge him and decide whether or not he is worthy of their trust. He must earn that trust. How? A leader must prove himself by his actions, appearance, demeanor, attitude, and decisions.
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If you wish to write, write.
