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memories book writing
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them Charles Caleb Colton
memories appreciate literature
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
memories mind firsts
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
memories green lord
Lord, keep my memory green. Charles Dickens
memories husband men
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
memories dictator amnesia
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Charles Stross
memories liberty might
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
language description hard
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. Alan Watts
language programming programming-languages
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. Alan Perlis
language english-language programming-languages
In English every word can be verbed.
language individual should
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. Chogyam Trungpa
language disturbing
The language you are about to hear... is disturbing. Dave Chappelle
language prison foreign-language
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison! David Mitchell
language internet mediums
The internet is an amazing medium for languages, David Crystal
language internet process
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
language stifling resignation
resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language. Caitlin Thomas
music-is
That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to. David Gray
music-is minimum snobbery
But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. Arthur Phillips
music-is escapism private-things
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. Agnes Obel
music-is-my-life without-music dies
Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything. Ayumi Hamasaki
music-is united ifs
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired. Boethius
music-is blues-music heard
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. Bruce Springsteen
music-is
Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic. Charles Spurgeon
music-is geometry
Music is geometry in time. Arthur Honegger
music-is affected
The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. David Byrne