#vince

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. ↗

— Thucydides

#be happy #brave #convinced #free #happy

I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#eight #had #i #mother #only

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#could #freed #i #if i could #more

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#chance #changed #character #convinced #exceptional

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#i #i can #perfect #pop #pop song

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#convinced #even #japanese #japanese people #necessary

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#convince #failure #finality #hopeless #me