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Wells Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
- Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is…
- I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some…
- Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I?…
- Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want." "What…
More Wells Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong