#temperament

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. ↗

— Philip Levine

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An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in. ↗

— Carl Lewis

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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience. ↗

— Damian Lewis

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The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. ↗

— Alice Miller

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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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Music inflames temperament. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

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It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! ↗

— May Sarton

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