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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #importance
Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened. ↗
Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear. ↗
In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. ↗
There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest. ↗
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. ↗
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. ↗
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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. ↗
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The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych". I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: "I wrote a diptych." [Colm Tóibín, Novelist – Portrait of the Artist, The Guardian, 19 February 2013] ↗
