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Aldous Huxley quote: "If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about..."
If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner. Aldous Huxley
George R. R. Martin quote: "Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the..."
Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead. George R. R. Martin
Imagine a puddle waking up and saying: 'This is an interesting hole I find myself in. Fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it! Douglas Adams
I have an opinion about holy war, which in general I must keep to myself. I have no wish to be known as a heretic. It is....that if a war can be holy, then God cannot. At best a war can only be necessary. Louis de Bernieres
Wallace Stevens quote: "One must read poetry with one's nerves."
One must read poetry with one's nerves. Wallace Stevens
Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must... E. M. Forster
Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song? if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say Vladimir Mayakovsky
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself). Roland Barthes
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to..."
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. Friedrich Nietzsche
Voltaire quote: "Life is a shipwreck but we must remember to sing in the lifeboats"
Life is a shipwreck but we must remember to sing in the lifeboats Voltaire
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world. George Santayana
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. Marquis de Sade
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has... Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it. W. Somerset Maugham

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