Pierre Corneille Quotes
Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.
Quotes to Explore
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.
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While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
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When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.
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All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.
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Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.
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Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.
