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  • Paul Auster People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Russell Baker People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Barbara Billingsley People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
    Barbara Billingsley
    American actor (1915 - 2010)
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  • Carlo Ponti People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
    Carlo Ponti
    Italian film producer (1912 - 2007)
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  • Henry James People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Anthony Powell People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • Barry Lopez People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Brad Delson People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Bode Miller People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bernhard Langer People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Marcel Proust People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • James Baldwin People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • George Eliot People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anne Rice People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • W. M. Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bernard Pivot People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Bodhidharma People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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