Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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'I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.'
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I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.
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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
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So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as human beings to try to work with them on every issue we can, and then if those cannons are fired at us, we've got to stand up and fight back. If you lay down and you look like a deer caught in the headlights, then you will confirm the assault. And so we have to fight back.
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Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.
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So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
