Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.
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It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.
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People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.
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Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
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The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
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We're all human beings; people make mistakes.
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I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.
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Despair is the only cure for illusion.
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Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!
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The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
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Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
