#mo

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#engine #genius #insight #moral #motor

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#exhausting #far #i #know #most

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress. ↗

— C. S. Forester

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I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#away #crutch #crutches #i #like

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#berkeley #british #four #italian #live

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know. ↗

— Milos Forman

#humor #important #know #me #nation

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone. ↗

— Milos Forman

#democracy #free #free press #i #in my opinion

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison. ↗

— James Forrestal

#aims #antidote #been #fact #greatly

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

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