Victor Hugo Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
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A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
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I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.
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Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured.
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It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
