George Eliot Quotes
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
Quotes to Explore
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.
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Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.
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With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.
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Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
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Time is the least thing we have.
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Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.
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To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.
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The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.
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If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.
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I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
