I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have religious training. And I suppose you don't say, I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal, but of course it does.
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
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Love without marriage can sometimes be very awkward for all concerned; but marriage without love simply removes that institution from the terr...
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I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
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Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
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Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
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A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
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The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference...
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
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'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he.
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Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
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The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education
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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
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Lora May: I've been a good wife. The best wife your money could buy. Porter: Strictly cash and carry.
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Porter: O.K., O.K., you win. I'll marry you. How 'bout it? Lora May: Thanks. For nuthin'....
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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
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The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.
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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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Lora May: Did you ever stop to think, Porter, that in over three years there's one word we've never said to each other, even in fun. Port...
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In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it
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Organizing works. Doing things collectively can accomplish things. It (the victory) reinforces our commitment.
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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
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reaffirms our role as the lead for human intelligence.
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