#fall

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#change #changes #every #falls #far

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church. ↗

— Josh McDowell

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My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. ↗

— Ovid

#him #idle #love #who #would

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.' ↗

— Carol Leifer

#always #anything #because #been #breaking

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#carried #falls #gets #idea #love

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. ↗

— Titus Livius

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