43.Quotes On Fiction:Laughter:Fashion:Manners:Perfection:Reputation:Growth-Part 1

"If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it." -Anthony Burgess-

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"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.".-Isaac Disraeli-

"You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.".-Oscar Wilde-

"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.".-Aphra Behn

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"If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.".-Henry David Thoreau-

"We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.".-Camille Paglia-

"I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.".-Henry van Dyke-

"When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, ''Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.'' I said, ''That's where I got my information about hell.''".-Vance Havner-

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"The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.".-Elbert Hubbard-

"The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.".-Mark Twain-

"Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world;he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.".-Albert Einstein-

"Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.".-Coco Chanel-

"To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.".-Henry James-

"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.".-Aleister Crowley-

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"Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.".-Henry David Thoreau-

"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines;and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.".-Oliver Goldsmith-

"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.".-Albert Einstein-

"If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.".-Jean Baudrillard-

"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.".-Oscar Wilde-

"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.".-Henry Ford-

"Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.".-Oscar Wilde-

"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.".-Bruce Lee-

"Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.".-Indira Gandhi-

"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.".-Pir Vilayat Khan-

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"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.".-Amos Bronson Alcott-

"You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.".-Christopher Marlowe-

"Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-

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"Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.".-Benjamin Franklin-

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