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I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
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Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
I do not hide my feelings, though sometimes I get carried away. I can't remember what humiliation I had suffered at the… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
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Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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“word on shame: If there is any one thing that can hold us back, it is our own self-loathing. If we move… — Jeff Brown Copy Share Image
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I… — George Sand Copy Share Image
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