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Marcel Proust Quotes

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: french
Birth: July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

Topics

Time Day Habit Inspire Feel Us

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Future Time Experience Past You Up

Government officials and citizens care about many causes - and they all require resources. For example, I am personally passionate about ending the human trafficking that still occurs within our borders.

Government I Am Ending Care Borders

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Life Ending Feel Enough Want Mean

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Men Me Go Become Far Interests

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

War World Believe Strategy Because

I'm not a victim.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

Mary Kay Andrews

Morning Magic Christmas Elusive

You can't expect a woman who's holding down a part-time job to train for the biggest race in the world. She has to have a minimum wage, and I think it's something that is pretty crazy that we don't have that.

Lizzie Armitstead

Job Woman Crazy World Think You

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

Fitness Me Daddy Physical Fitness

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.

Me Start You Down Know Three

I know Charles Michael Davis. I used to play poker with him when I lived in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Play Know Him Lived Los

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

Black And White Black Look White Big

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