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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. — Eric Cantona
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. — Eddie Cantor
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own. — Eddie Cantor
You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally. — Jerry Cantrell
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own. — Robert Farrar Capon
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. — Al Capp
I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by… — Sherman Alexie
If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your… — Roger Caras
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. — Orson Scott Card
Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are. — Steve Carell
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own,… — George Carlin
If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people. — Tucker Carlson
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. — Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own… — Thomas Carlyle
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a… — Stokely Carmichael
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than… — Nelson Algren
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly… — Andrew Carnegie
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own. — Andrew Carnegie
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever… — Caleb Carr
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. — Eric Carr
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people… — Kris Carr
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way. — John le Carre
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene,… — John le Carre
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really,… — John le Carre

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