Anthony Trollope Quotes
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
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I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.
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I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was.
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"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?
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Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.
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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Beware of creating tedium!
