Marcel Proust Quotes
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
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A is for Adam and E is for Eve. B is for bile, blood and bones.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
