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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: January 1, 1839 - January 25, 1908

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Innocence Kind Always Vice Seem

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Mother Daughter Alone Time Pain

I can't be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don't think anybody can do that.

Character Day Think Shooting Weight

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

Men Me Road Keep Show Knew

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

John Quincy Adams

Wisdom You More Laws Brighter Moses

To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

Robert C. Solomon

Influence World Think Degree Dollar

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

Love Characteristics Most Germans

Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction.

Colors Find Place Way Everything

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Life American Journalism Talk Noise

I was one of those girls people called 'intense.'

People Intense Those

I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

Painting Bad Dream Done Two Here

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Years Last Revolutionary Eight His

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

You Head Working Sweating Lab Met

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