Elias Canetti Quotes
You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
Elias Canetti
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
Fanny Howe
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
Eavan Boland
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. Barnum
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
Irene Dunne
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino
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Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.
Cassandra King
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How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.
Luke Scott
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I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
Judy Blume
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I think Liverpool have a long history with many great players. I hope one day to be up there with those great players. I'll try my best to write some history here.
Luis Suarez
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I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'
Jesse Bradford
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You need the rhetoric of others, the aversion it inspires, in order to find the way out of your own.
Elias Canetti
