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  • Billy Wilder An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark, that is critical genius.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • V.S. Naipaul An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
    Source: The Writer and the World (2012) 225
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Constance Rourke An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
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  • Thomas Traherne An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Edwin P. Whipple An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • James Patterson An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.
    James Patterson
    American writer (1932 - 1972)
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  • Bret Harte An hour ago, a Star was falling. A star? There's nothing strange in that. No, nothing; but above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Albert Einstein An hour sitting with a pretty girl passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. That's relativity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brent Scowcroft An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Amy Hempel An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
    Source:  (2008)
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Sacha Guitry An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Jan Carlzon An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.
    Jan Carlzon
    Swedish businessman (1941 - )
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  • A. W. Tozer An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Buddha An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Samuel Smiles An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • John Gay An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Alejandro Amenabar An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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