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“Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?”

“My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'”

Littles I Can Book Would Be Dies Wish Sex Thank God Finishing Little Time Keyboards Time Off Good Sex Finishing A Book

Author:Nora Roberts

“Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.”

“If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write, it's about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.”

Ifs Writing Littles Book Happens Would Be Artist Becoming One Day Absolutes Pursuit Crafts Comic Weekend Comic Book Exploring Improving Lifelong Narcissist

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.”

Humans Littles Home Wisdom Government Would Be Political Used Politics Economy Too Much Economic Land Taught Driven Liberalism Tragic Distrust Suspicious Frailty Economic Power

Author:Ndabaningi Sithole

“As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."”

Ifs Knows Trying Looks Littles Doe I Can Would Be Loses Sleep Morning Minutes Fit Clothes Weight Extras More Time Fifteen Closets Skinny

Author:Mindy Kaling

“When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.”

Littles Made Reason Would Be Kids Boys Grew Grew Up Adults Made It No Reason Little Kid Little Boys Yiddish

Author:Mel Brooks

“Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.”

Way Littles Art Ideas Would Be Turns Moral Virtue Produce Poet Genius Holy Musician Instruments Noble Foolish Painter Ethical Aesthetic Virtuous Employed Barren

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.”

Ifs Way Littles Would Be Blood Seconds Shed Principal Dueling

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.”

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.”

Littles Would Be Too Much Injustice Manners Courtesy Courteous

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Book Would Be Certain Streets Particular Expression Pride Citizens Fame Universal Affection Atmosphere Paris Spells Jest Marseille

Book:The Arrow of Gold

Source: The Arrow of Gold

“Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.”

Ifs World Giving Littles Would Be Opinion Miserable Tact

Book:Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney

Source: Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney

“far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.”

Littles Country Home Would Be Lasts Dies Poor Tree Far Away

Book:The House of the Spirits: A Novel

Source: The House of the Spirits: A Novel

“Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.”

Thinking Writing Littles Doe Would Be Young Wish Hours Wise Identity Calling Healthy Activity Oneself Satisfied Pornography Being Wise Verbs Nouns

Author:Lorrie Moore

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