One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you...
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Shauna Niequist
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...
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Emma Thompson
The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.
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Maria V. Snyder
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
More Quotes By Jacques Barzun
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable quality, just pure art.
