Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.


Jean Anouilh

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JEAN ANOUILH
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
JEAN ANOUILH
It is a lie.
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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Life is a re-discovery.
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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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CHRISTOPHER FUDGE
For me, my life is a journey.
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Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
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The one w...
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Life is a risk.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
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Life is a school of probability.
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This life is a process of learning.
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Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
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Everybody in life is a chameleon.
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When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
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Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on).
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON
My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA
For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
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Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
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Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go...
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
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It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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To stand on the
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Wrong?
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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
BRIAN HARRIS
Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
CECELIA AHERN
This is not an election. It would have been wiser for Hosni Mubarak to win by a small margin or even...
AYMAN NOUR
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is li...
PETER KREEFT
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
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Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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-What mood ...
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self importance.
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All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
JACK KEROUAC
Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
DANNY MEYER
Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
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Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes...
JEAN PAUL
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
JEAN PAUL
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...
JEAN GENET
To hate fatigues.
JEAN ROSTAND
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat,...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
JEAN ROSTAND
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
JEAN ROSTAND
My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
JEAN KERR
Without money honor is merely a disease.
JEAN RACINE
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN RACINE
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
JEAN BRYANT
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han...
JEAN COCTEAU
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND
The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL