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13535 quotesMusical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Humor
Stephen Sondheim
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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Ambition
Susan Sontag
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
Depression
Susan Sontag
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Paranoia
Susan Sontag
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In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
Cinema
Susan Sontag
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Literature
Susan Sontag
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Possibilities
Susan Sontag
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Photography
Susan Sontag
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
Problems
Susan Sontag
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Truth
Susan Sontag
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Writers and Writing
Susan Sontag
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Self-reliance
Sophocles
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For the dead there are no more toils.
Death and Dying
Sophocles
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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Action
Sophocles
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I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
Uncategorised
Sophocles
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Appreciation
Sophocles
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Ignorant menDont know what good they hold in their hands untilTheyve flung it away.
Uncategorised
Sophocles
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Purpose
Sophocles
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Judgment and Judges
Sophocles
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None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
News
Sophocles
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Love
Sophocles
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Honesty
Sophocles
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
Success
Sophocles
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Gambling
Sophocles
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Reason
Sophocles
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun