#latter

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As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.


Kenzaburo Oe


#continually #different #family #grew #half

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.


Laura Prepon


#believe #ever #fact #find #finger

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.


Boris Spassky


#cinema #classical #compare #latter #like

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.


Hesiod


#after #barn #coax #deceive #flattering

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.


Holly Near


#believe #day #first #handed #i

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.


Gustave Flaubert


#artists #creativity #flattery #public #readers

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.


Criss Jami


#christianity #enemies #fabrications #facts #flattery

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.


Henry Villard


#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered

It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat.


Jay Woodman


#love #round #world #love