Lewis Carroll Quotes
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
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Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
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Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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People are sheepish when they approach me.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.
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The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
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The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
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I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.
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I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.
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I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
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He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.
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You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.
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They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
