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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If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
Steven Tyler
Aerosmith
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Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
Sigmund Freud
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So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth.
David C. Coates
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I feel better about myself when I look my best. I always find the time to put on my powder and do my chignon.
Dita Von Teese
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I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.
Diora Baird
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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
