Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

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Marguerite Yourcenar

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• The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Why
  • May
  • Book

• Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Real
  • Thought
  • Wind

• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Religion
  • Tradition

• I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Three
  • Five
  • Wives

• I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Love
  • Mom
  • Playing

• Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Right
  • Difference
  • Between

• Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Water
  • Individual
  • Issue

• When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • World
  • Writing
  • Live

• Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Stop
  • Back
  • Go

• I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Think
  • Successful
  • Late

• Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Happy

• I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term 'artist' rather embarrassing.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • God
  • Religious

• We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Up
  • Family

• On ne doit plus craindre les mots lorsqu'on a consenti aux choses.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar