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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4576)

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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
Victor Hugo
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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character' possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
Anita Loos
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
Victor Hugo
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Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
Anita Loos
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There's nothing colder than chemistry.
Anita Loos
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If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
Anita Loos
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That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
Anita Loos
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
Victor Hugo
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I've always loved high style in low company.
Anita Loos
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I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.
Anita Loos
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The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
Victor Hugo
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
Victor Hugo
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
Victor Hugo
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
Victor Hugo
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
Victor Hugo
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
Victor Hugo
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Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
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I am for religion, against religions.
Victor Hugo
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I see black light (his last words)
Victor Hugo
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
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