William Golding Quotes
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'
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You have one heart, and once you give it away, it's gone. If you wear it on your sleeve, a lot of people are there to take advantage of it.
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You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.
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I think that when you are struggling as an actor, you imagine that if things were to pan out, everything in your life would change, But really, it's not so different. You're still pursuing good work. You still panic that you're doing it all wrong.
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
