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- It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing…
- My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
- Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more…
- This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and…
- We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time…
- Yes, they have more money.
- Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult…
- I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded…
- Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are…
- Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy…
- It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided…
- Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts…
- In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
- In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the…
- His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no…
- Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do…
- I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we…
- I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition,…
- Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the…
- I drink to make other people more interesting.
- Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.
- I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
- How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to…
- Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
- Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle