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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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.
Richard Feynman
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
Veronica Roth
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I want every dish to be a ten.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on labor. Many experts call this 'progress,' but the natural result is that many companies respond by sending their operations and jobs to less costly nations.
Oliver DeMille
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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
Marcel Proust