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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#serious #witty #you

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#autonomous #between #citizens #external #free

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it. ↗

— David Guterson

#book #doing #emerge #even #i

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. ↗

— David Guterson

#generation #i #interested #themes

If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say. ↗

— Jake Gyllenhaal

#going #his #i #i think #life

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#character #come #i #more #most

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#i #i can #long #manuscript #place

There are no friends at cards or world politics. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#friends #politics #world #world politics

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#bay #big #floating #forward #guitar

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#family #friendship #inspirational #simon-lewis #family