Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
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The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
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Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
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Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.
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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
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The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.
