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CYRIL CONNOLLY
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment.
FRANCIS JEFFREY
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Part of the power is the illusion of power.
SAM SMITH
Things happen that can't happen.
ALEXANDER MINDADZE
From infancy on, we all are spies. The shame is not this, but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and so few.
JOHN UPDIKE
See what a man does; watch his motives; find out what pleases him. Can the man evade you? Can he evade you?
CONFUCIUS
While we deliberate how to begin a thing, it is already too late to begin it.
QUINTILIAN
Poverty and failure produce no goodwill, but with a little triumph, a little success, one can purchase something very like kindness.
ENID BAGNOLD
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
BORIS PASTERNAK
The mad often notice significant things that the sane ignore.
J. I. M. STEWART
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
I love that man who wants the impossible.
GOETHE
What we call the beginning is often the end,
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
T.S. ELIOT
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language.
GEORGE ORWELL
