Marcel Proust Quotes
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
I've always been a narcissist.
Damian Lewis -
To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
Utah Phillips -
We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
Jackie Speier -
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
Ted Cruz
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas -
I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
Nathan Sawaya -
If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
Jaan Tallinn -
I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
Barry McGuigan -
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
A. S. Byatt -
There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
Dane Cook
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Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
Yair Lapid -
I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
Tab Hunter -
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis -
I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
Omari Hardwick -
My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
Patrick deWitt -
I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
Kate Adie
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Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.
Anzia Yezierska -
In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
Ram Charan -
Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
Oscar Wilde -
Everything's a 360 and that's what's so funny about life now, and they're right at that age and I have teenagers now, and I'm like 'Wow I remember when I did that.' Aint nothing new.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin -
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.
Marcel Proust