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Andre Maurois quote: "In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen..."

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

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I yet beseech your majesty,--If for I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known. It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness, No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step, That hath deprived me of your grace and favour; But even for want of that for which I am richer, A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue. As I am glad I have not, though not to have it. Hath lost me in your liking. William Shakespeare
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The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it. David Millar
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment. Victoria de los Angeles
Jonathan Taylor Thomas quote: "An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have..."
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Roland Freisler quote: "If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your..."
If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut! Roland Freisler
Cindy Sheehan quote: "We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries..."
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain. Cindy Sheehan
Alan Bennett quote: "History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a..."
History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so. Alan Bennett
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. George Westinghouse
Evel Knievel quote: "I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me."
I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me. Evel Knievel
Too young, too young, she chanted to herself. Wrong, of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license, she was right. Stephenie Meyer
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. Milan Kundera
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dnouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dnouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention. Edgar Allan Poe
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Beene-beene. The truest truth."
Beene-beene. The truest truth. Barbara Kingsolver
The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory. Rudolf Arnheim