Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
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'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
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Carnage added to carnage does not equal peace.
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The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
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When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
