Marcel Proust
Novelist
"When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest."
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Catching
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist
"Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?"
Terry Pratchett
Author
"Insanity is catching."
Ray Bradbury
Author
"Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people."
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"There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist."
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"Nothing is so catching as example."
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"Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure."
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"There are follies as catching as contagious disorders."
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"It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide."
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