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  • Bell Hooks A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Anita Brookner A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • John Galsworthy A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Joseph Conrad A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Charlie Chaplin A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Billy Childish A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Cab Calloway A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Murray Kempton A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • Joyce Carey A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
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  • Abraham Pais A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
    Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) p. 45
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Walter Winchell A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
    Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator (1897 - 1972)
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  • Bootsy Collins A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Plutarch A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Frank Dane A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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