Quotes 6341 till 6360 of 11114.
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Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
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Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
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