"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality."

People, Eyes, Reality, Writer

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"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

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"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."

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"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

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"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary."

"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."

"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."

"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."

"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read."

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"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."

"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."