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Dependability Quotes (page 23)

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self. William Butler Yeats
The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning. Henry David Thoreau
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the..."
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? Lawrence Durrell
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it. Anthony Storr
I very clearly recognise that the certainty and truth of all knowledge depends alone on the knowledge of the true God, in so much that, before I knew Him, I could not have a perfect knowledge of any other thing. Rene Descartes
Oscar Wilde quote: "Ah, on what little things does happiness depend."
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend. Oscar Wilde
Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you are, it depends not on this, but on the direction in which you are tending. Samuel Butler
Mitch Albom quote: "He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so..."
He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born. Mitch Albom
Cormac McCarthy quote: "The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel..."
The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written. Cormac McCarthy
Then isn't this rather all a false funeral? Can't it help you to see that there is something wrong when all the dreams in this house-good or bad-had to depend on something that might never have happened if a man had not died? We always say at home: Accident was at the first and will be at the last a poor tree from which the fruits of life may bloom. Lorraine Hansberry
Alain de Botton quote: "Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement."
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement. Alain de Botton
My advice to a budding literary critic would be as follows. Learn to distinguish banality. Remember that mediocrity thrives on "ideas." Beware of the modish message. Ask yourself if the symbol you have detected is not your ownfootprint. Ignore allegories. By all means place the "how" above the "what" but do not let it be confused with the "so what." Rely on the sudden erection of your small dorsal hairs. Do not drag in Freud at this point. All the rest depends on personal talent. Vladimir Nabokov
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way. Ernest Hemingway
Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in the feelings of a great many people. He was still the same gentle, attached, affectionate creature that he had been when pain and suffering had wasted his strength; and when he was dependent for every slight attention and comfort on those who tended him. Charles Dickens
Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't. Philip Pullman

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