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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Sense, Youth

"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Sense,

"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."

Helen Keller, American Author

Sense, Life, Beauty, Gratitude, Presence

"What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are."

Anna Jameson, British Writer

Sense,

"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."

Carl Barks, American Artist

Sense,

"Italians have no sense of the dramatic."

Jose Carreras, Spanish Musician

Sense,

"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."

Amber Tamblyn, American Actress

Sense,

"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking."

Craig McCracken, American Artist

Sense, Talking

"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."

Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier

Sense,

"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Sense, Democracy, Opinion, Truth

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"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."

Thought

"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."

Fun

"To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all."

Decision-Making

"If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story."

Home

"One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled."

Effort

"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."

Joy

"The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy."

Decision-Making

"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."

Being

"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."

Love

"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."

Woman