An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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quotistI won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
#quotes #maria-callas #responsibility
Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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I will never ever sell Neverland. ~Michael Jackson
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). ~Ibrahim Rugova
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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proverbiosI adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
#quotes #ian-somerhalder #stories #truth
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
#quotes #oscar-wilde #fashion
randomHe is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~Benjamin Whichcote
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