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greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
kafka later work writers
One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form. John Kessel
letters pigeons messages
Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest. Bryan Callen
letters mines
Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine. Camille Claudel
letter letting return soon twins visit yesterday
We've also faxed them a letter yesterday letting them know that she would like to be a party, be told of the developments, she'd like to be able to visit and she'd like the return of her twins as soon as possible. Gloria Allred
letters listen losers seems stupid winners
Unfortunately, it seems like there are always winners and losers with this kind of decision. They'll probably write letters to the editor, tell us how stupid we are, and tell us we don't listen to the public. Curt Johnston
letters fans awake
When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter. Austin Mahone
letter owner process sending starts
The process starts by sending a letter to the owner by certified mail.
letters
This isn't a letter, it's a gift. David Nicholls
letter post stay
Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter Benjamin Franklin
letters mix quite since six wait weeks
Letters is antsy, but he's ready. He's been off quite a while and can't wait to mix it up with someone. He's a little nervous, too. It's been six weeks since a 'live' bout, so that's quite a mid-season break.
novelists novel livelihood
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. David Mitchell
novelists poet copyright
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright Beth Henley
novelists filmmaker
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers. Billy Bob Thornton
novelists sooner-or-later
Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular. Dean Koontz
novelists kind call-me
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. Aleksandar Hemon
novelists academic written
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. A. S. Byatt
novelists perhaps
I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. Kurt Vonnegut
novelists knows cusp
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing. Jane Smiley
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote.
sincere substitutes ardent
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
since stimulated
We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners. John Hull
sincere loses
How can we lose when we're so sincere? Charles M. Schulz
since
I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little. Lindsay Lohan
since
What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.
since uncharted
We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.
since
You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid. Isla Fisher
since time
I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11. Kristy McNichol
since
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. Thomas Steinbeck