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Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.


Robert Benchley


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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.


Joseph Butler


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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.


Ray Walston


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I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.


John Grisham


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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.


John B. S. Haldane


#arousing #better #description #emotion #fact

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.


Samuel Butler


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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.


William Lyon Phelps


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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.


Plato


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