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literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
made
you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words. C. S. Lewis
made jane
He made me love him without looking at me. Charlotte Bronte
made bigs
I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth. Cary Grant
made knows ifs
The truth can be made up if you know how. Jane Wagner
made clear ifs
If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken. Alan Greenspan
made angle
Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. Chris Bauer
made
Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them Chetan Bhagat
made screenplays written
Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies. Edward Norton
made dear universe
I am what the universe made me to be, my dear. Brandon Sanderson
should turns left
...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual. Carlos Castaneda
shoulders programming mathematician
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. Carl Friedrich Gauss
shoulders young
I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.
should-have awards way
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way. Aaron Tveit
should-have criminals should
Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are. Aaron Sorkin
should-have suffering firsts
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
should-have quality shapes
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me...
should acknowledge religious-faith
We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.
should make-sense lulls
Why should poetry have to make sense? Charlie Chaplin