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Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that. Gunter Grass
Truth You Business Hurt Truth Is Lies Boring Oneself Along Protect Mostly Another Very Person Different Which Help Harm
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. Guru Nanak
Happiness Service Alone Wife Faithful Depend Ancestors Religious Oneself Rites Highest Performance Bliss Due Offspring Heavenly
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. Gustav Mahler
Way Guided Oneself Never Contemporaries Opinion Continue
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. Guy Debord
Natural World Nothing Consider Everything Finds Oneself More Chatter Thus Without Condemning Hear Than Deceitful Wanting Center Capable Even Chosen Starting
In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better. Hanya Yanagihara
Healing Better Big About Oneself Particular Redemption Very American Getting Getting Better Just Movement Forward Novels
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. Harold Brodkey
Darkness Unknown Wild Monumental Enter Visiting Purest Oneself Only Like Most Loss Form Cannot Which Funeral
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. Henri Matisse
God Prayer Mind Believe Think Frame Some Oneself Put Buddhist Know Sort Close Essential Whether Which Really Thing
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. Henry Moore
Art Struggle Discipline Drawing Oneself Understand Much Fundamental
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing. Herta Muller
Writing Oneself Angle Entirely Sees Another Experiences Process Searches Keeps Things
Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print - 'The Very Model of a Man' is the only novel of mine that has - and so crops up infrequently in conversations with readers or indeed with oneself, revisiting it can be perilous. Howard Jacobson
Man Business Own Mine Indeed Out Fraught Crops Oneself Only Perilous Print Readers Always Fallen Years Up Very Revisiting Model After Conversations Many Novel Novels
I believe that my father has become an ongoing symbol of what it means to keep on fighting for what is good in oneself, in others, and in our country. Hunter Biden
Good Father Country Become Fighting Believe Others Our Oneself Ongoing Means Keep Symbol
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison? Ian Mckellen
Love Gay You Will Gender Prison Positively Russia Someone Oneself Put Talk Affectionate Hearing Trying Same Modern Where Anyone Anything Public Actor Imagine
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. Iris Chang
Life Daily You Yourself Matter Think Out Oneself Write Attempt May Being Being Honest Whirlwind Requires Novel Daily Life Honest Pull
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. Iris Murdoch
Writing Luck Married Oneself Never Like Until Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married Should
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself. Isaac Rosenberg
Important Situation Say Vitally Oneself More Only Individual Empires Real Affect Than Fates
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. Ivan Turgenev
Speak Enthusiasm Fire Earth About Oneself Only Ecstasy May Anything Speaks
If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. James Chanos
Work Day You Noise Every Day Negative Every Type Way Out Oneself Individual Takes Wrong Remind Drown Hearing Accurate Certain Reinforcement Imaginable Basically
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. James Meade
Work Knowledge Understanding Our Further Finds Oneself Rate Various Subject Expanding Frontiers Fields Hard Whole Away
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. James Wyatt
Matters Others Trifling Oneself Could Employ Which Professional
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. Jean Dubuffet
Long Unless Says Wearing Oneself Merely Goodbye New Territories Expect Loves Eventual Away Travels Extinction
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. Jean Rostand
Day Three Party Ought Oneself Remain True Renounce Times Order
It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere. Jennifer Nettles
Life Balance Somewhere Important Fine Fine Line Examined Oneself Having Between Line Being
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. Jessamyn West
Sense Of Humor Humor Joke Sense Oneself More Takes Than Hearts Taste Irony Which Breaking Kept Appreciate
Testing oneself is best when done alone. Jimmy Carter
Alone Best Oneself Testing Done
In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act. Joan Didion
Saying Me Change People Writing Mind Aggressive Other Way Ways See Oneself Hostile Imposing Listen Act Your Many Even
I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind. John Burnside
People Dangerous Try Mind Own Think Other Everything Oneself Like Pigeon-Holed Hand Really Necessarily
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