Quotes 461 till 480 of 1030.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
Source: Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible, 7 september 1864 -
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
Source: The Remarkable Rocket (1888) -
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
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It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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