Oscar Wilde Quotes

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
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I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.