“One must observe the proper rites.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 219 of 303
“Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts”
“I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”
“Anything seems commonplace, once explained.”
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”
“It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.”
“If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.”
“After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.”
“My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.”
“The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.”
“I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.”
“As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.”
“If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.”
“Never ask people about your work.”
“Even the mood of a lot of people, my dad gets on me a lot because he's like people love answers but I'm more for questions, ask the right questions.”
“I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop.”
“Just know what you're talking about and if you don't, look it up. Education.”
“It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.”
“To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.”
“Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?”