Marian Keyes Quotes
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
Marian Keyes
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A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
J. M. Coetzee
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan,His pity gave ere charity began.Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.
Oliver Goldsmith
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In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.
Condoleezza Rice
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Disrespect, the feeling that what one has to offer in life has been rejected, the feeling that one has joined history's losers can make us as human beings more vulnerable to evil.
Al Gore
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With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.
Leigh Brackett
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What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. 'Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?'
Jerry Seinfeld
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Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.
Neil Gaiman
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The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.
John Perry Barlow
Grateful Dead
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Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch,The owl very gravely got down from his perch,Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic(Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.
James Thomas Fields
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The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
Ray Bradbury
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I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
Pablo Picasso
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I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
Marian Keyes
