George Gissing Quotes
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.
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Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.
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I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.
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Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
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Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
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He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
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Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
