#much

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#am #destroys #first #habit #i

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#despise #hate #love #much #only

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#as far as #concerned #copying #easy #far

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood. ↗

— James Payn

#boyhood #i #i do #much #part

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery. ↗

— James Payn

#hand #learned #literature #lottery #many

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#interesting #much #talk #too #too much

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#australian film #enough #film #film industry #going

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years. ↗

— Neil Peart

#ankles #any #canada #good #growing

I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#i #kind #much #question #shape