Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
Erich Maria Remarque
Quotes to Explore
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
Jackie Chan
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
Wendy Kopp
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
Rafael dos Anjos
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
Malcolm Boyd
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
Karin Slaughter
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
Walter Jon Williams