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Jean Anouilh Quotes

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: french
Birth: June 23, 1910 - October 3, 1987

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God Devil Never Terrible Just Knows

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

Good Blind Inappropriate How Readers

Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

Poetry Writing Dirty More Secret

When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British.

Steve Jurvetson

Space Texas Better Up Lord Gamers

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Society Find Human Scary Existence

There's a DVD called 'The Secret.' It's like visualization and meditation, certain methods I use before games, visualizing the games before they happen.

Meditation Games Secret Happen Like

We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a thriving middle class. You look at the G.I. Bill after the war - it was an investment in our service members who had served this nation with distinction.

Service War Proud Long You Look

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

Test Ability Being Ultimate Olympian

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

Moment School Writing Remember Where

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.

Believe In Yourself Yourself Believe

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

Live Knowledge Adventure Mind World

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

Fight Learn You Back I Can Go

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

Book You Always Humour Going Sense

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