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«Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.»
Author: Brendan Behan | Keywords: critics, eunuchs, harem, unable
«Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion»
Author: Dewey Henize | About: Character, Reason, Religion | Keywords: positive, trait, unable
«Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading»
«Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.»
«Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Possessions | Keywords: possesses, proved, unable
«Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.»
«All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.»
«A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.»
«He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony»
Author: African Proverb | About: Dancing | Keywords: stony, unable, yard
«I am the kind of person who doesn't recognize borders. I don't understand why we think it is okay to keep someone within one border when they are unable to feed their family when they could be getting help somewhere else. I don't see people as different so I don't understand the idea of borders in this world.»

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