Miasma Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession…
— Conrad Black
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
— George Steiner
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of…
— Lilian Whiting
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Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through…
— Edward Gorey
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There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something…
— Raymond Chandler
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Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame…
— Donna Tartt
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always…
— David Puttnam
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There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics…
— Donna Tartt
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As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match…
— Jung Chang
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer…
— Alice Walker
Who Wrote These Miasma Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Miasma Quotes as follows: