George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
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I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able – if called upon to do so – to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world.
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Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.
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I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
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People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
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No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.
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I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.
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When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.
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Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."
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All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.
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But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
