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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take…
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one…
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be…
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of…
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to…
— Alfred Adler
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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates…
— Hillary Clinton
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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did…
— Janet Morris
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
— Homer
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
— William Shakespeare
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
— Seneca the Younger
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
— Alexander Pope
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The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
— Janet Morris
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Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.
— Janet Morris
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Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of…
— William Shakespeare
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they…
— Unknown Author
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The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems…
— Murray Kempton
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