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Profession Quotes by Georges Simenon
- I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters…
- Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
- Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
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- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,… — Charles Babbage
- Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. — Lauren Bacall
- Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. — Lord Acton
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James A. Baldwin
- Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. — Henry Adams
- No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. — Shirley Bassey
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher