Honore de Balzac Quotes
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
Honore de Balzac
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Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
Piers Anthony
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I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.
Mario Batali
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I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure.
Amy Childs
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Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
Linda Ronstadt
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
B. C. Forbes
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As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."
Barack Obama
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The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.
Brian Tracy
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We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.
Ami Ayalon
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We don't “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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Airtight allegiance to place could make you a loser, left behind by the great sweep of a monochromatic, generalist world.
Ellen Meloy
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“Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.”
Will Thomas (novelist)