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Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for only the latter have produced an effect. Likewise only with supposed heroes. His theme, so-called world history, is opinions about supposed actions and their supposed motives, which in turn give rise to further opinions and actions, the reality of which is however at once vaporised again and produces an effect only as vapour - a continual generation and... Friedrich Nietzsche
You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instrumentsproducing a confused agreeable massof sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details. Arnold Bennett
It was never what he had done, but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil Ernest Hemingway
She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maya Angelou quote: "If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how..."
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou
John Ruskin quote: "He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of..."
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. John Ruskin
He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the edge of the page is no guarantee. Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation. He hated to argue about the techniques of verse. The poem is a dirty, bloody, burning thing that has to be grabbed first with bare hands. Once the fire celebrated Light, the dirt Humility, the blood Sacrifice. Now the poets are professional fire-eaters, freelancing at any carnival. The fire goes down easily and honours... Leonard Cohen
Italo Calvino quote: "Falsehood is never in words; it is in things."
Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. Italo Calvino
Shelter me from the powder and the finger. Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger. Think of me as one you'd never figured. Would fade away so young. With so much left undone. Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her. Neil Young
I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot", or "That Claudius", or "Claudius the Stammerer", or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius", am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point... Robert Graves
Neil Gaiman quote: "You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of..."
You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women. Neil Gaiman
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. Samuel Adams
Albert Einstein quote: "I never said Half the crap people say I did"
I never said Half the crap people say I did Albert Einstein
He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting for it and could, with patience, be shown that they were panting for it. So Adrian grabbed what was to hand and had the time of his life genitally - focusing exclusively on his own gender of course, for this was 1973 and girls had not yet been invented. Stephen Fry
Do you know, Princess," said I with a shade of annoyance, "that one should never spurn a repentant sinner, for out of sheer desperation he may become twice as sinful . . . Mikhail Lermontov

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