George Santayana Quotes
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Silence is my dignity.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
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People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
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Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
