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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.
— Robert Silverberg
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That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I…
— Julian Assange
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You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the…
— Thomas Keneally
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When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public…
— Juliana Hatfield
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It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament…
— Robert Nozick
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Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.
— Neil Peart
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I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating…
— Jonathan Rosen
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
— E. M. Forster
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Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad…
— Wayne Rooney
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I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very…
— Anais Nin
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I live in Hollywood. Go three feet and you will run into someone more cut and better looking than me. For me,…
— Jonathan Lipnicki
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