Quotes 801 till 820 of 1030.
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
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The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
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The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
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There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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