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Francis Bacon quote: "Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends"

Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends

Francis Bacon

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Symbols are something [the writer] uses simply as a matter of course. You might say that theses are details that, while having their essential place in the literal level of the story, operate in depth as well as on the surface, increasing the story in every direction? the truer the symbol, the deeper it leads you, the more meaning it opens up Flannery O'Connor
The common and continual mischief's [sic] of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a... George Washington
Matthew and Lucinda felt at the exact edge of their lives, feeling them close, closer, as near at hand as yet elusive as the wind that whistled in their hair: the true complete lives in which they would at last drown, the oceanic voyage into their thirties and beyond, through which their inchoate yearnings would either be soothed or disappointed, or both. Jonathan Lethem
Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object. Edmund Husserl
Albert Camus quote: "There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn."
There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn. Albert Camus
Amy Sedaris quote: "I always find something to keep me busy."
I always find something to keep me busy. Amy Sedaris
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all. Gretchen Wilson
We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework. Joschka Fischer
James Freeman Clarke quote: "See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run..."
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke
John Barrow quote: "Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment."
Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment. John Barrow
People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong. Padma Lakshmi
U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next. Christiane Amanpour
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do. L. M. Montgomery
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time."
But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time. Elizabeth Bowen
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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. Joyce Grenfell