Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
Karen Joy Fowler
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My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
Gayle Forman
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
Samuel Goldwyn
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
G. H. Hardy
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I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.
Kate Bosworth
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Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.
Pat Buchanan
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Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington
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But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?
Karl Marx
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
Larry Wall
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Happy in the time of Jesus were those who wept! Happy, now, are those who can laugh, because laughter is the attribute of man, as the great prophet of the Renaissance, Rabelais, said. Laughter is forbearance; laughter is philosophy. The heavens clear when they laugh, and the great secret of divine omnipotence resides in an eternal smile!
Eliphas Levi
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I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.
Joanna Going
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It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.
Arthur Cohn
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I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.
Soren Kierkegaard
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You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
Tom Hollander
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I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.
Willy Bogner, Jr.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain
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The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.
Pablo Picasso
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
Geoffrey Chaucer
