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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The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
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When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
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That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else.
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.
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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.
