Quotes with fortune-telling

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• The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

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  Paul Auster
  American writer and film (1947 - )
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• The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

  Jean Paul Getty
  American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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• The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

  Bill Dedman
  American journalist (1960 - )
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• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

  Carol P. Christ
  American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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• The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

  Stephen Leacock
  Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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• The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

  William Penn
  English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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• The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

  Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002)

  Kurt Vonnegut
  American writer (1922 - 2007)
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• The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.

  Bonnie Hunt
  American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''

  Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

  Junot Diaz
  Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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• The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

  Amelia Earhart
  American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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• The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''

  John Mortimer
  English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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• The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.

  Bethany McLean
  American journalist (1970 - )
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• There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

  Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

  Jules Renard
  French writer (1864 - 1910)
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• There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
  

  Thomas Sowell
  American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• well-publicized
• investigation
• revolutionary
• posthumously
• anonymously
• everything

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