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Goodness Quotes (page 332)

Stephen Fry quote: "The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a..."
The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a naughty world. Stephen Fry
They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience. Giordano Bruno
Zelda was very beautiful and was tanned a lovely gold colour and her hair was a beautiful dark gold and she was very friendly. Her hawk's eyes were clear and calm. I knew everything was all right and was going to turn out well in the end when she leaned forward and said to me, telling me her great secret, 'Ernest, don't you think Al Jolson is greater than Jesus?' Nobody thought anything of it at the time. It was only Zelda's secret that she shared with me, as a hawk might share something with... Ernest Hemingway
It's beautiful to have a smoking jacket, a good cigar and a wife who plays the piano. So relaxing. So lenitive. Between the acts you go out for a smoke and a breath of fresh air. Henry Miller
Tina Fey quote: "It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just..."
It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. Tina Fey
E. M. Forster quote: "He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a..."
He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman. E. M. Forster
Kevin Costner quote: "I haven't had a perfect life...but I have had a perfectly good..."
I haven't had a perfect life...but I have had a perfectly good life! Kevin Costner
Charles de Secondat quote: "Very good laws may be ill timed."
Very good laws may be ill timed. Charles de Secondat
Evidently, evildoing also has a threshold magnitude. Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life. He slips, falls back, clambers up, repents, things begin to darken again. But just so long as the threshold of evildoing is not crossed, the possibility of returning remains, and he himself is still within reach of our hope. But when, through the density of evil actions, the result either of their own extreme danger or of the absoluteness of his... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems. C. S. Lewis
Marge Piercy quote: "She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to..."
She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately. Marge Piercy
It doesn`t matter who you are, or how good you got things. Sooner or later, shit goes wrong for everybody. Sooner or later, there comes a time when all you want to do is shout Fuck you to the world. Garth Ennis
But what I remember is the countryside then, the brilliance of outdoors and outwindows, and the sunlight streaming through the lozenge shapes of the glass, and we were locked away from it, locked inside to worship. And there was the sun out there for everyone else to see. Good God, tell me Clovis wasn't lonely at dawn. Tell me he wasn't sick at the sunset. William Gaddis
Almost all good writ in begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something -- anything - down on paper. A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft -- you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft -- you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it's loose or cramped or decayed, or even, God help us, healthy. Anne Lamott
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean/ they show us how to live and die. They are full of all the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. And quality of attention: we may notice amazing details during the course of a day but we rarely let ourselves stop and really pay attention. An author makes you notice, makes you pay attention, and this is a great gift.... Anne Lamott

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