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«I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.»
Author: Christopher Hampton
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consulted, deceit, distilled, get away, moralist, moralists, Novelists, philosophers, pleasure principle, strictest, virtuosi, virtuoso, wonderfully
«It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.»
Author: Fred Woodworth
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Shame,
War
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civilians, combat, trash, unneeded, wonderfully
«I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
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andy, Andy Warhol, conceptual, figurehead, replica, Warhol, wonderfully
«I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
andy, Andy Warhol, conceptual, figurehead, replica, Warhol, wonderfully
«Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Art
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all the same, exuberantly, irrational, pointless, puritan, Puritans, wonderfully
«It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
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contradict, contradicted, contradicting, improve, now and then, wonderfully
«It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.»
«It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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attuned, malice, penetrating, pinch, reports, sneers, wonderfully
«I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bore, delightful, merely, society, suppose, tragedy, wonderfully
«Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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concentrates, depend upon, fortnight, wonderfully
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