Violet Trefusis Quotes

#1. To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

Laura Esquivel

#2. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card.

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#4. Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.

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#5. I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

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#6. Greatness is measured by how much you believe

Myron J. Stenzel

#7. If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Thomas Jane

#8. Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.

Katherine Paterson

#9. Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

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#10. The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

Jack White

#11. People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

Glenn Frey

#12. Also, somehow, there doesn't seem to be any old-fashioned gender roles in place, or any gender roles at all. The priest who condemned me to the mob was a woman. I'll cheer for equality later.

Claudia Gray

#13. You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. I am a sucker for jackets!

Anna Torv

#15. The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza ...

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#16. When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

Philip Yancey

#17. You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

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#18. I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy.

Yitzhak Rabin

#19. We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

Satish Kumar

#20. The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#21. How I adore you and want you. You can't know how much ... I love belonging to you
I glory in it, that you alone have bent me to your will, shattered my self-possession, robbed me of my mystery, and made me yours, so that away from you I am nothing but a useless puppet, an empty husk.

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