Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Best
  • Passionate
  • Courageous

• In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Real
  • Songs

• I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Family
  • Together
  • Parents

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Family
  • Health

• The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Hurt

• Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Up
  • Family
  • Pretty

• The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Time
  • English
  • Doubt

• Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Voice

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

  

  Dogen
  • Truth

• Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Real

• From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.

  

  Marc Ostrofsky
  • Present

• The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • World

• Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • People
  • True
  • Wise

• We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Art

• Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.

  

  Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
  • Lies

• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Respect

• I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • True
  • Fear
  • Failure

• To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

  

  Diogenes
  • Slave
  • Market
  • Orders

• Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Literature
  • Revenge
  • Slave