Claudius Claudianus Quotes
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I'm always full of ideas. I just haven't stopped doing what I did as a teenager. Now I just happen to get paid for it!
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I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.
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The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.
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The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.
