Denis Donoghue Quotes
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I don't like controversy.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.
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Swami Apasthanand is still there, he is very old now, but I had gone to see him and stayed with him for quite some time. But it is a different world, why get into it here.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
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The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
