Marcel Proust Quotes
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
Marcel Proust
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
Mackenzie Davis
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
Walter Kirn
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
Zoe Kazan
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba
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To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true.
Charlotte Bronte
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
Yitzhak Shamir
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The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
David Cameron
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He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.
Bobby Robson
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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
Marcel Proust
