Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

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• I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Why
  • Childhood

• So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Entrance
  • Visitor
  • Chamber door

• It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Tree
  • Flowers

• Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Moving

• Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label 'Christian' or because some people persist in calling us a 'Christian nation.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Age
  • Church

• It wasn't like I wanted to be the next Marc Andreessen, but it would be cool to be in the same place.

  

  Jawed Karim
  • Cool
  • Place
  • Wanted

• They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Women
  • Angry
  • Silent

• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • See
  • Page
  • Leap

• An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
  • Power
  • Comedy
  • Air

• A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Men
  • Women
  • Study

• The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

  

  James Boswell
  • Connection
  • Authors
  • Printers

• Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Vocation
  • Authors
  • Tyrants

• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Distance
  • Hunger
  • Authors

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

  

  Scott Cook
  • Revolution
  • Internet

• This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.

  

  Banksy
  • Time
  • Men
  • House

• There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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