Alberto Moravia Quotes
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.Alberto Moravia
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett -
My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.
Sabine Lisicki -
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
Octavio Paz -
For me, I always like to get up bright and early.
Andre Rieu -
No suspicion of foul play at this time.
Wendell Johnson
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Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.
Lew Wasserman -
Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together.
Valentin Tomberg -
Let me out," Harry said again. "No," Dumbledore repeated. "If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-" "By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.
Joanne Rowling -
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
Max Lerner -
...the Indian public are weighed down by their problems, and becoming rather insular in their outlook because of their preoccupation with their own problems. We have to rouse them and make them conscious that we can progress only as a part of the world and as a part of Asia.
K. R. Narayanan -
The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
Hippocrates
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Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.
X. J. Kennedy -
I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
William Shakespeare -
I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the idea. As soon as I'd decided a few fresh faces and give them something to do, I realized that what my editor had really asked for was more plot. Ding. More characters equals more action.
Elizabeth Sims -
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
Alberto Moravia