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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of… — Albert Camus
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That… — Albert Camus
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the… — Albert Camus
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. — Shana Alexander
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. — Truman Capote
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it… — Truman Capote
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art.… — Truman Capote
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when… — Donald Cargill
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very… — George Carlin
When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true. — Paula Abdul
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. — Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. — Thomas Carlyle
The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter,… — Thomas Carlyle
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. — John Carmack
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever… — Caleb Carr
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some… — Benjamin Carson
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding… — Benjamin Carson
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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