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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#aware #bad #being #confess #fear

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that. ↗

— George Brett

#baseball #been #better #could #deserves

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#applause #happiness #keeping #outside #person

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #curtain #doors #down #go

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#biographies #called #find #got #hate

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#backgrounds #because #behavior #careful #come

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. ↗

— John le Carre

#another #back #balance #bank #childhood

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#certain #help #lives #moments #need

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us. ↗

— David Zucker

#brothers #funniest #grew #hour #i

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#each #how #killing #learn #live