George Steiner Quotes
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
George Steiner
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I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'
Steve Lukather
Toto
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Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
Nicole Kidman
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
William Faulkner
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Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
Thomas Hardy
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I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.
John Green
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
Thomas Carlyle
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From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
Wallace Shawn
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Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.
Edward Burne-Jones
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Few people remember good women. They don't forget bad girls.
Joan Bennett
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Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.
George W. Jenkins
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I feel like strength comes from within. And like everything that I am and experience make you strong. And I've been through so many things in my life and those things have taught me. I'm one of those girls, every experience, I learned from my experience.
NeNe Leakes
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
George Steiner
