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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.


Lionel Trilling

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LIONEL TRILLING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that inter...
DAMON GALGUT Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder ...
MARVIN HARRIS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
EDWARD DE BONO Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain
EDWARD DE BONO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In colder ...
RITA DOVE I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence,...
DAVID SHIELDS People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human being...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh...
C. JOYBELL C. Anything man can make, man can destroy.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA This increase ... is most likely a result of an increase in the difficulty of stunts being attempted...
BRENDA SHIELDS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou...
SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.
SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black.
SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one.
SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!"
SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me.
SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a...
SEX AND THE CITY I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs.
SEX AND THE CITY All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves...
SEX AND THE CITY 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire.
SEX AND THE CITY Sex and the City.
SEX AND THE CITY Suicide is not glamorous and should not be portrayed in a glamorous light.
SEX AND THE CITY When an opportunity comes, I don't question it. I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand and swing...
SEX AND THE CITY Having money isn't the answer but it makes your life a hell of a lot nicer. If you have the choice t...
SEX AND THE CITY Despite the fact that there are over eight million people on the island of Manhattan, there are time...
SEX AND THE CITY When Charlotte really liked somebody she said their whole name. It helped her picture their future m...
SEX AND THE CITY I love you but it's not my job to fix your finances. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY It took me a really long time to get here, but I'm here. Carrie, you're the one. [Mr.Big]
SEX AND THE CITY Life is not all about sex. [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must ...
SEX AND THE CITY From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is. [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so hig...
SEX AND THE CITY My character, she's kind of gotten away with her looks, gotten away with her ability to charm people...
SEX AND THE CITY I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But...
SEX AND THE CITY Charlotte: So how are you?
Carrie: I'm good. How are you?
Charlotte: Great.
Carrie: I to...
SEX AND THE CITY I had often fantasized about running into my ex and his wife. But in those fantasies, I was running ...
SEX AND THE CITY From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is. [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY I'm thinking balls are to men what purses are to women. It's just a little bag, but we feel naked in...
SEX AND THE CITY They practically chased me with torches like I was Fuckenstein! [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY Middle-Age Girls Gone Wild.
SEX AND THE CITY You in a threesome? You won't even wear a thong! [Samantha]
SEX AND THE CITY The only thing worse than a liar is a bad liar. [Lucy Liu]
SEX AND THE CITY

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LIONEL HAMPTON Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
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LIONEL MESSI The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n...
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LIONEL MESSI Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.
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LIONEL MESSI A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whet...
LIONEL SHRIVER Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?
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LIONEL RICHIE As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.
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LIONEL SUGGS I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
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LIONEL ANDERSON The last two years it has been working for us.
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LIONEL MESSI All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
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LIONEL BLUE Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don'...
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LIONEL SHRIVER The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
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LIONEL SHRIVER The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
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LIONEL SHRIVER Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
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LIONEL JOSPIN I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
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LIONEL JOSPIN an exceptional woman ... who brilliantly gave Russian women a new image.
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LIONEL SHRIVER Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't?
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LIONEL SHRIVER The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
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LIONEL SOSA Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
LIONEL BARRYMORE Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
LIONEL BARRYMORE I've got a lot of ham in me.
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LIONEL MESSI I believe that we are missing a great opportunity. We as Republicans are not really emphasizing what...
LIONEL SOSA I've always been crazy about playing.
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LIONEL BARRYMORE I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.
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LIONEL SHRIVER People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their o...
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LIONEL SHRIVER People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
LIONEL SUGGS Beware of what "everybody says".
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LIONEL SHRIVER Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach m...
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LIONEL SHRIVER Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
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LIONEL RICHIE My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
LIONEL RICHIE The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei...
LIONEL SUGGS I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s...
LIONEL BLUE Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was...
LIONEL BLUE I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
LIONEL BLUE To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows i...
LIONEL SUGGS When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'...
LIONEL SUGGS People lie to adapt...
LIONEL SUGGS I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people t...
LIONEL SUGGS Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi...
LIONEL SHRIVER What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I...
LIONEL BLUE I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
LIONEL BLUE The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b...
LIONEL BLUE If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.
LIONEL SUGGS When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.
LIONEL SUGGS To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities...
LIONEL SUGGS If you drop assumptions, and can anticipate the possibilities, you can master the art of strategy. H...
LIONEL SUGGS Strategy is methodical, but the one who steers chaos and randomness can steer God.
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