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Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.
Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.
If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.
It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?
I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.
The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.
A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.
I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
Just because it's true, doesn't mean it's believable or interesting.
It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.