Though Quotes
2220 quotes by 1884 authors
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A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an…
— George Edward Woodberry
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My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may…
— George Edward Woodberry
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The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
— E L Doctorow
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary…
— Orson Scott Card
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
— Roald Dahl
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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family.…
— Anne Stevenson
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My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality…
— John Drinkwater
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.
— Jim Harrison
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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as…
— Mark Strand
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I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even…
— Ken Burns
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Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather…
— Jean M. Auel
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I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture…
— Duane Michals
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I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.
— Marty Feldman
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic…
— Karl Abraham
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In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am…
— Meher Baba
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Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.
— Shelley Berman
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Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
— Roddy Doyle
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