Theophrastus Quotes
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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He's frustrated with the situation over the last couple years.
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Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.
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Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for the novels. What I turn in is what you see. There are some exceptions, but almost always I can see exactly what it's going to be.
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I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.
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If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
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But what if we are dealing with fools?
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There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
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Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.
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It is important to be in love with love.
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Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.
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Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
