Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
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As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
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... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.
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Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.
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If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.
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From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.
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Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact
