Conn Iggulden Quotes
...holding to rage is like holding a piece of glowing coal. It burns only him.
Conn Iggulden
Quotes to Explore
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We're dealing with 15 regulatory agencies as it is, so anything that makes it more stringent or tougher to mine is going to be bad news for the coal industry.
Don Gibson
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
Rita Mae Brown
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Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
Ernest Hemingway
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made,
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
William Cowper
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I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.
Muhammad Ali
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Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.
William Gibson
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For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying...
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.
Lois McMaster
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It is better to rage against the preventable suffering/because it leads to the suggestion of gorgeous alternatives/than to express our sadness.
Judith Malina
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It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
Sam Shepard
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...holding to rage is like holding a piece of glowing coal. It burns only him.
Conn Iggulden
