Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
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I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
