#orr

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#horrible #i #i think #just #know

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupt #corrupts

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

#absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupts #power

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupt

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#correspond #few #many #them #too

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. ↗

— Joey Adams

#about #avoid #avoiding #grow #older

Genius is sorrow's child. ↗

— John Adams

#genius #sorrow

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I do not want to work to correspond to an image. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

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