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Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge. Anne Rice
Stephenie Meyer quote: "It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes..."
It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it. Stephenie Meyer
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I am only bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses..."
I am only bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some degree of interest. Charlotte Bronte
Let thethings be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like me. This is what makes them so dear andworthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can lovethem. And this is now a teaching you will laugh about: love, oh. Govinda, seems to me to be the most important thing of all. Tothoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may bethe thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able tolove the... Herman Hesse
It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions. Roland Barthes
A. N. Wilson quote: "I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some..."
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. A. N. Wilson
Fran Lebowitz quote: "If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others,..."
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies. Fran Lebowitz
I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind. John Wilmot
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obligated to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alertly as we pretend E. M. Forster
Mark Twain quote: "The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one..."
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it... Mark Twain
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness. Tom Robbins
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. Rose Kennedy
In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. Robert A. Heinlein
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe. Edgar Allan Poe
Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? To prohibit what they think pernicious is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction. If we were never to act on our opinions, because those opinions ‘lay be wrong, we should leave all our interests uncared for, and all our duties unperformed. An objection... John Stuart Mill

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