Aubrey Menen Quotes
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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There's different ways to win in this league. It's not always going to be pretty.
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I want a girl who doesn't know that she's beautiful, so i have an excuse to let her know all the time
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You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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I like the OMG Girlz. They're real and they're friends.
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There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
