Expletives Quote by Hugh Walpole

“All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.”

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Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

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Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

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I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something…

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The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing…

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A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an…

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I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

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Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

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“Code breaker Mabel Elliott's favorite quote was: It isn't life that matters! It's the courage we bring to it.”

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

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“She was young enough and inexperienced enough to make many demands upon life - that it should be romantic, that it should, in the…

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“When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it', and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.”

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I think I would have taken a (expletive) load of Advil.

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[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

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You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

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“Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds." "Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear." "You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed,…

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The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it!…

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I do understand that when someone gives you a [expletive] load of money, you take that money. Someone like Larry Ellison wants to invest into his event and make it the biggest possible, and he gets stopped by the ATP. If you're a start-up, what would make you want to navigate through that and to go through that firing line?…

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