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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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.
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I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.
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All truth is God's truth.
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Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason.
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A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
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Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
