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It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
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It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.
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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
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It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. III -
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33 -
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
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