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“As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.”

Heart Ends Care Romance Lying Stuff Justice Fiction Moral Fine Reader Lessons Conversation Essence Revenge Hungry Manners Good Man Repentance Sentiments Good Manners

Author:Alberto Manguel

“When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite”s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.”

Years Looks Stuff Boys Style Ten Essence Eight Nine Spokes Dynamite Duh

Author:Jason Reitman

“The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them.”

Humans Political Humanity Social Stuff Human Beings Essence Treats Mere Human Life Psychics

Author:Laura Riding

“Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.”

Has Beens Lasts Science Stuff Natural Century Materials Drug Essence Prepared Substance Streams Colour Sugar Artificial Scent Coal Compounds Explosives

Book:Matter and energy

Source: Matter and energy

“To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.”

Stuff Imagine Revolution Essence

Author:Leonard Sweet

“I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. All that sort of stuff reminds you to stay true to the essence of what art is about.”

People Giving Art Stills I Can Play Shows Courses House Stuff Sleep Art Is Essence Going Out Stay True

Author:Geoff Rickly

“You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).”

Stuff Sports Existence Essence Sports Movie

Author:Christopher Reeve

“It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.”

Way Writing Littles Philosophy Stories Actors Stuff Acting Taken Focus Events Lessons Essence I've Learned Filmmaking Distracted Cliche Good Writing Good Acting

Author:Ben Affleck

“It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed”

May Artist Stuff Interesting Safe Approach Essence Creator Corporate Dichotomy

Author:Bill Sienkiewicz