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- Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
- Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
- Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
- It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings…
- Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
- A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
- Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just…
- There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's…
- The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful…
- Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a…
- It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are…
- .. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly…
- Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
- Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
- The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to…
- There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
- The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
- It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
- Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
- I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster