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Philip Larkin quote: "There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse..."

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

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I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little. Robert De Niro
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends. James Thurber
I like Bill a lot. As Bill is presented, I mean you don't ever see Bill blow her head off? You know? And I think what Quentin has done is he created a monster. David Carradine
William Shakespeare quote: "A dream itself is but a shadow."
A dream itself is but a shadow. William Shakespeare
Mary Tyler Moore quote: "You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen..."
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore
Charles Spurgeon quote: "Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to..."
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. Charles Spurgeon
The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns. Herman Wouk
Benjamin Franklin quote: "A penny saved is a penny earned."
A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? George Orwell
All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises. Hu Jintao
Voltaire quote: "Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity."
Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity. Voltaire
I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over. Sean Connery
Greg Egan quote: "I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get..."
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published. Greg Egan
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives. David Frum
Lee Trevino quote: "No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine."
No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine. Lee Trevino