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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job.… — Anne Enright
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of… — Thomas B. Macaulay
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To… — Walter Lippmann
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon. — George Eliot
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once… — Michel de Montaigne
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with… — Joseph P. Farrell
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. — Henry Ward Beecher
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be… — Mark Twain
Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air… — Edgar Allan Poe
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash. — Charles Dickens
I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train… — Garrison Keillor
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a… — William Cowper
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with… — Georges Braque
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. — Raymond Chandler
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment… — Edmund Burke
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. — Edmund Burke
As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate… — William Allen White
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances.… — Christine Lagarde
Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting. — Henri Matisse
I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about… — Georgia O'Keeffe

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