Oscar Wilde Quotes
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Truth is the best defense.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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What you are about to read is not an aberration: it can happen in your local university too. The Big U, simply, was a few years ahead of the rest.
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Part of what you need to understand is that we're forced to look back. You had the importation of third world or developing world conditions into the United States because of a bipartisan elite consensus for neo-liberalism. In other words, you had both political parties, the smarty-pants in both political parties said, hey, let's do these crazy trade deals.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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I have always been immersed in a world filled with words, earlier as a reader and now, finally, as both a reader and a writer.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
