Elsa Triolet Quotes
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
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A real secret is something which only one person knows.
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Defend my honor - Protect my pride
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The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
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I'm not worried about where I rank between other QBs in the league.
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Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.
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You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
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Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.
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My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
