#confess

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#clearly #confess #feel #i #i feel

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle. ↗

— Gary Locke

#confess #criminal #days #good #grisham

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#confess #more #sell #sins #will

Confess and be hanged. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#hanged

I must confess, I was born at a very early age. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#born #confess #early #early age #i

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. ↗

— Karl Marx

#art #confession #everywhere #immortal #movement

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed. ↗

— Maria Monk

#confession #constantly #detained #directed #enough

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#certain way #christ #come #confession #emotion

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#acquaintance #alive #comes #confess #finding

I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas. ↗

— Alfred Kastler

#confess #foreign #gas #ground #had