"Once you are dancing with the devil, the……" — E T A Hoffmann
"Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you."
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13 Quotes by E T A Hoffmann
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As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds…
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Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some…
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It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and…
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Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of…
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from…
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Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your…
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I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some…
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to…
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how…
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature…
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I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another…
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Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers…
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So…
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The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines,…
— Herman Wouk
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i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and…
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We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
— William Shakespeare
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I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools…
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He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were…
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Self Made, You Just Affiliated I Build The Ground Up, You Bought And Renovated Talking Plenty Capers, Nothings Been Authenticated…
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