William Goldman Quotes
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
William Goldman
Quotes to Explore
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
Olivia Wilde
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
Gary Wolf
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide
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Playing around with other people's husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl.
Mary Beard
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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.
William Hazlitt
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In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost. No, we will not do it at any cost. We will do it in a way that ensures maximum benefit for the Russian state and the Russian economy.
Vladimir Putin
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
William Goldman
