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Marguerite Duras

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NO DOUBT It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh...
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining...
INITIALLY NO It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go...
DONALD NO I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ...
DONALD NO They tell me to be quiet
When I’d rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
O...
INITIALLY NO We had no doubt that they were guilty.
JUROR NO We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first.
JUROR NO Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can.
JUROR NO We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t...
JUROR NO I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus...
INITIALLY NO Binary approach is an obsolete school of thought in the process of structuring human perception towa...
TOBA BETA There is no paradise for you or me.
MAZ NO PARADISE Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but s...
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ISAIAH HARDEN China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolation...
CHIANG KAI-SHEK No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or pe...
JEFF LINDSAY Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward...
SHERI L. DEW Man conscious is man immortal. Man conscious gives to the creation as no other thing can give and is...
BARRY LONG A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father o...
GEORGE ELIOT No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, menta...
J.K. ROWLING The inspiration to me is the key that unlocks the song, painting, poem, music, or anything that can ...
TOMMI POLO No man or woman shall dictate my character, behavior or worth.
JAIME CONTRERAS To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
JOHN LOCKE True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has...
MILAN KUNDERA A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fa...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There is nothing neutral about the soul. It is the seat and the source of life. Either we respond to...
THOMAS MOORE No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and n...
KNUT HAMSUN They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in eff...
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MATT HAIG No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...
SIGMUND FREUD No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his wi...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrad...
HARRISON FORD I believe that each human being has within himself or herself at least one poem or short story, or p...
DEE BROWN Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of...
JOHN BERGER Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation ...
JOHN BERGER No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit...
PHILLIPS BROOKS No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very...
URSULA K. LE GUIN No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
DAISY BATES No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies
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TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS He was our father no one man can replace him.
ISAAC ABRAHAM He was our father — no one man can replace him.
ISAAC ABRAHAM Therefore, as always, make of this voice what you choose to make of it. Make of me what you choose t...
JANE ROBERTS No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any othe...
DORIS ROBERTS Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music
GEORGE LILLO All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowes...
SAMUEL GOMPERS No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.
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ANITA SHREVE No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being ...
ALAN ALDA The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enqu...
SAINT BASIL I love the fact that art allows you the freedom to be able to do what you want with no real constrai...
JACQUELYN SINGER No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
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J. PAUL GETTY No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a confor...
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MAYA ANGELOU Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
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VIKRAM PATEL Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
CARL JUNG The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or...
JOHN BERGER In order to get Marty out of jail we had to get something that no other person or no other attorney ...
JAY SALPETER No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
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EMMANUELLE BEART No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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BETTY FRIEDAN No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other f...
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GEORGE SAND If you need something inspirational, just point up to the top of your vision.
MAZ NO PARADISE Sad but inspirational
MAZ NO PARADISE We face a new world everyday, try to understand them and love them more than our yesterday.
MAZ NO PARADISE Believe me, Dream is better than Hope but both Combined is the best.
MAZ NO PARADISE Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away.
MAZ NO PARADISE Recognize every time before doing anything that you always do a miracle.
MAZ NO PARADISE

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LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
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MARGUERITE DE ANGELI It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit.
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine ar...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what w...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON It is difficult to overcome one's passions, and impossible to satisfy them
MARGUERITE DE LA SABLIERE Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON