Paul Claudel Quotes
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
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There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
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2015 was, like, packed from January. 2016 is simultaneously open and packed - but I'm trying to keep 2016 open as possible so I can do weird, crazy, kooky stuff.
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When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.
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Industrialization created the 'Father’s Catch-22': a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.
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When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
