George Bernard Shaw Quotes
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Malcolm Arnold
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
Jack Nicklaus
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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
C. S. Lewis
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger
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I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.
James D. Watson
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I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.
S.C. Stephens
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
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Because change is never easy, and is resisted, it is your job as storyteller to apply as much pressure on your characters as possible. You must back them into a corner and force them to change. Make it as painful as you can. Bring them to the brink of physical or emotional death if you possibly can. Your protagonists will be measured by the size of their struggle, so don't pull any punches.
Brian McDonald
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The most woeful ingredients of the Spanish civil war were its selfish motives, the hidden ambitions it served, the emphasis on hollow words used by both sides; it seemed to be a comedy - terribly bloody - but a comedy all the same.
Claude Simon
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw