Marcel Proust Quotes
Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
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I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.
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He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
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Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
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Of the Black Prince his son at Crécy, 1345: Let the boy win his spurs. Old English Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I woll this iourney be his, and the honoure therof.
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There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.
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Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.
