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I am a lie who always speaks the truth. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#dislike #else #explain #how #i

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#living #man #must #posthumous

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#being #being misunderstood #misunderstood #poet #through

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#artistic #done #enough #ever #find

Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fight #fight-quotes #fighting #fighting-quote #fighting-quotes

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out. ↗

— Joel Coen

#always #beat #fact #figured #had

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#had #happy #happy childhood #i #people

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#beings #each #how #human #human beings

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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