Charles Dickens Quotes
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
Quotes to Explore
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
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It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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Beauty makes life easier. People want to do things for you. They want to marry you and pay for everything.
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It was like she'd become the sun, and I started revolving around her. She was my center.
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There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
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We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
