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I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most… — William Faulkner
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase… — Lawrence Durrell
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers. — Ernestine Rose
Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But… — Peter Viereck
If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation… — Joel Spolsky
A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business. — Vivian Vande Velde
I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass… — Robert Goolrick
When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third… — Lilian Katz
While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this… — Valerie Estelle Frankel
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours. — Jude Morgan
Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at… — Yukito Kishiro
Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy! — Beth Moore
The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman. — Albert Einstein
During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted… — Michael Meade
Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him. — Rick Warren
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous… — Dale Carnegie
A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and… — Elsa Schiaparelli
There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family. — Pope Francis
I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can… — Mario Teguh
The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed. — Jose Bergamin
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. — Jim Bishop
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different. — John Buchan
The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake. — Neko Case

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