Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Author : Marcel Proust
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Author : Martin Luther King, Jr.
I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.
Author : Tom Sizemore
The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.
Author : Dave Barry
On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country’s war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.
Author : William Lyon Mackenzie King
With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.
Author : Jo Ann Emerson
There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
