Eloisa James Quotes
Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
Quotes to Explore
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
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Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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Thinking of the sun causes quick beating of my heart - snowy weather comes on the wind lightly drifting.
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We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.
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I think sometimes a part requires more than one approach or thought.
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It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy.
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Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.
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Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
