Decimius Magnus Ausonius Quotes
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I have anonymously helped many thousands.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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I don't have many easy songs.
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I don't want to have so many exes.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
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Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.
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There are many paths but only one journey.
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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
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And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.
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I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.
