#imply

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#again #boundaries #cannot #certain #certain things

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#certainly #come #detective #detective story #does

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#away #charges #explain #invariably #jews

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#become #belief #concern #enough #often

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#day #get #into #just #life

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#bed #doing #else #frankly #go

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#dying #emerging #national #new #off

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#american #backgrounds #college #compared #different

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. ↗

— Florence Scovel Shinn

#explain #faculty #intuition #points #simply