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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

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1 Age

  • 1. I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
  • 2. I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
  • 3. In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

2 Amazing

  • 1. People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
  • 2. Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues that they're not afraid to speak about theirs which is an amazing feeling.
  • 3. Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of for instance Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.
  • 2. I love each and every one of you but like my own family you thrill you frustrate you anger.
  • 3. He who is incapable of feeling strong passions of being shaken by anger of living in every sense of the word will never be a good actor.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 3. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
  • 2. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
  • 3. The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
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