Charles Dickens Quotes

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

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• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

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• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

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• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

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• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

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• Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

  

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• Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

  

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• If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

  

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• Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

  

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• All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

  

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• The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?

  

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• I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

  

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• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  

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• By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

  

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• Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.

  

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• I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

  

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• When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

  

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• It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

  

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• Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

  

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• Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

  

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• Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

  

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• It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Kings
  • Passions
  • Prerogative