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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
Trouble
"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."
Television
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
Metaphor
"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
Work
"That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness."
Vision
"Metaphor is embodied in language."
Language
"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
Work
"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
Children
"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
Ideal
"Everything we do has consequences."
Consequence
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"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."
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Personal Development
"Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!"
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Personal Development
"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"
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Personal Development
"There is only one ideal in the world, which is, the light of knowledge " the light of truth."
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Personal Development
"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."
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Personal Development
"The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals."
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Personal Development
"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."
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Personal Development
"Our ideals are our better selves."
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Personal Development
"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
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Personal Development
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