Ella Maillart Quotes

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

Ella Maillart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: February 20, 1903 - March 27, 1997

Topics

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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

John Berger

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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

Jennifer Weiner

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Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Matthew Simpson

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When I was little, I used to suck the candy coating off of Advil and spit the white part back in the bottle.

Michael Che

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Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

John Shirley

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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

Tony Judt

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You have to learn to be fluid and go where you're needed, when you're needed. You've gotta be flexible. I think that's what acting is.

Luke Hemsworth

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If all of us try to do everything, we will accomplish nothing.

Brad Schneider

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

Sharon Stone

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I'm never satisfied. I want to get to the next level.

Ty Dolla Sign

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Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.

Tim O'Reilly

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