Marcel Proust Quotes
The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.
Quotes to Explore
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
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Every idea has its time.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.
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I think the important point which I've been trying to get across is that Islam, from the very beginning, is strongly, clearly opposed to autocratic dictatorial government. The idea which we so often hear expressed in the Western world, that's how they are, that's how they will always be and they can't do anything else.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
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The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.
