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Elias Canetti Quotes

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: swiss
Birth: July 25, 1905 - August 13, 1994

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Good Bad Person Know Capable He

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Life Failure Giving Giving Up Up

In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.

Community Together You Race Bigger

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

Boots Country Defeat Will Military

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

Work History Wife Go Likes Some

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

Understanding Argument Need Two Does

I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year.

Time Me Year Sharing Single Double

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Robert Fitzgerald

Work Winter Sea Think Impact Rocks

I would love to do something dramatic. I don't know if anybody will ever give me the chance, but I would love to try it. I'm trained in acting and spent many years working on it, so it's just a matter of opportunity.

Love Opportunity Me Chance Acting

I had this thing where I only wanted to work on original material, no adaptations, and obviously, that changed. I really wanted to have the resources and have the space and the time to tell stories that I've really cared about. I've kind of changed my approach, but I've gotten to do that, to tell stories that I really care about.

Work Time Space Care Kind Resources

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

Age Time Feel Nap Old Anything

I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.

William Sleator

Day Every Day Nothing Try Write

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

Business Money Think Enough I Think

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