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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ↗

— Angela Carter

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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

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When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

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There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

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Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. ↗

— Gianni Versace

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If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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