Best Inspirational Wisdom
205543 Inspirational quotes by 25767 unique authors
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
— Margaret Atwood
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
— Margaret Atwood
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There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
— Margaret Atwood
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
— Margaret Atwood
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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
— Margaret Atwood
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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was…
— Chinua Achebe
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's…
— Margaret Atwood
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
— Dean Acheson
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
— Dean Acheson
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Beauty has a lot to do with character.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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I spent much of my life hiding.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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I'm very passionate about what I do.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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