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«No one's as nice as they want to be. Even if they may act it, in their heart of hearts they know when they experience ill will toward another and secretly wish to carry it out.»
«One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well /but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?»
Author: Shirley Hazzard
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«Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.»
«It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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antisocial, apparently, asocial, bottomless, brilliantly, grandly, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, Howard, Howard Hughes, Hughes, increasingly, largest, officially, prize, secretly, surpassingly
«I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.»
«Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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acute, generals, General will, Judges, killing, priests, secretly, The Verdict, triumph, verdicts
«Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves»
«Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Advertising
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competitors, manufacturers, march on, secretly, sells, vaguely
«I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe.»
«I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.»
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