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«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 or not.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
corrupted, corruptibility, dealing, fiction writer, in a sense, mainly, Sex and, Shakespeare, themes, tremendous
«Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th»
«In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.»
Author: J. Donald Walters
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Earth
| Keywords:
an island, distances, in a sense, island, islands, planet Earth, situate, situated, situating
«Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.»
Author: James Q. Wilson
| About:
Drinks
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arresting, drunks, failing, harmed, identifiable, in a sense, score, unjust, vagrant, vagrants
«All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.»
«In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
continue, encyclopedia, encyclopedias, freeze, freezes, freezing, froze, frozen, insist, in a sense, in history, perceptions
«Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Experience,
Failure
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discouraged, discourages, discouraging, discovery, Discovery of, earnestly, false, fresh, fresher, freshest, highway, in a sense, leads, points, positive, sense experience, the highway
«Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.»
«In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is ri»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
assurance, assurances, creates, in a sense, No problem, painful, received, sense experience, side by side, solves, ultimate
«[The public lands represent] in a sense,the breathing space of the nation.»
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