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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
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"Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand."

Interesting Leaving House Of Cards
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That's a kind of personal story of mine that I don't think I would tell in memoir but I do think I can tell in fiction."

Thinking Heart Interesting
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives."

Thinking Interesting Encounters
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Charles Dickens Novelist
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"One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment."

Character Eye Interesting
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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend"

Mind Interesting Enemy
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Brit Hume Journalist, Commentator
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"Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way."

Believe Opportunity Interesting
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Bill James Statistician
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"Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises."

Thinking Real Interesting
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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it."

Sex Interesting Pruning
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it."

Interesting Lucky Track
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