William Congreve Quotes
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
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Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion
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You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
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I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
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Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.
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We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper ageĀ Are they withered in the sod?
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?
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Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.
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For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.