Thing One Quotes
93 quotes by 75 authors
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The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking…
— Donna Tartt
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate…
— Orson Welles
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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about…
— Oscar Wilde
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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
— Michel Faber
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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
— Anthony Burgess
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Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.
— Patricia Briggs
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in…
— Ezra Pound
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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
— Paul Valery
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What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
— Michel Foucault
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
— Oscar Wilde
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
— Albert Camus
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at…
— Oscar Wilde
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The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing…
— Sloane Crosley
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But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
— Graham Greene
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I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it…
— Djuna Barnes
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You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one…
— Ezra Pound
Who Wrote These Thing One Quotes
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