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"The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer."
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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."
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"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
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"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."
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"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."
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"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
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"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."
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"What is easy is seldom excellent."
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"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
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"Become great by converting your time into quality product."
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"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
Art
"I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker."
Nation
"Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures."
Nation
"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
Movies
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."
People
"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."
Humor
"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
Animals
"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
Reading
"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."
Luck
"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."
Want
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