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“If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Wish Goodness Be Good

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.”

Want Writing Looks Would Be Wish Written Reader Goodness Prose Transparent Describing Want Him

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“The thought of people in this day and age sitting down to listen to a radio variety show on Saturday evening is rather implausible and was even more so in 1974 when we started “A Prairie Home Companion.” Thank goodness Minnesota Public Radio was too poor to afford good advice or the show never would've got on the air. We only did it because we knew it would be fun to do. It was a dumb idea. I wish I knew how to be that dumb again.”

“How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.”

People Knows World Way I Can Night Wish Dark Goodness Thick Fog

Book:Complete Plays: 1932-1943

Source: Complete Plays: 1932-1943

“Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.”

Want Wells Made Spirit Force Wish Goodness Sight Ill Prosperity Vices Envy Malice Meanness Lament Good Nature

Author:Jeremy Collier