Quotes 901 till 920 of 3710.
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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.
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He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
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He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.
Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
Murder for Christmas (1939) -
He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
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He receives comfort like cold porridge.
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He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward -
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
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He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.
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Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
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