Quotes with make-believe

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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Norman Macewan Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Marquis de Sade Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Marcel Proust Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Thomas Traherne Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Gloria Steinem Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Francis Quarles Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Carrie Vaughn Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads - choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.
    Carrie Vaughn
    American writer (1973 - )
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  • William Morris Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • B. D. Wong Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Judy Garland He gave me a look at myself I've never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Raupach He has the power who the majority believe in.
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  • William Ellery Channing He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Herman Melville He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Aneurin Bevan He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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