P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
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'Well now,' he said, 'was I as good as you were when you were me?'
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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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To waft a feather or to drown a fly.
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If I loved you, well that's my fault
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
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I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.
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The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.
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If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.
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Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state.
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My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together.
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While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
