Edmond Jabes Quotes
We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.
Edmond Jabes
Quotes to Explore
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Sam Mendes
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
Caity Lotz
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
Tahar Rahim
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
Wayne Dyer
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Eduard Hanslick
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
Tana French
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Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
James Dyson
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Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
Camille Paglia
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I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.
Keala Settle
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Don't believe a word they're telling to you. They let me down, where will I find where I fit in, I hate this town.
Jeremy McKinnon
A Day to Remember
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But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.
William H. Gass
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We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.
Edmond Jabes
