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• The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Grace, Mercy, Rage

  "The Man Who Had No Idea (The Vengeance of Hera)". Book by Thomas M. Disch, October 1978.

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• The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Writing, Want

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.30, A&C Black

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• Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Children, Unification Church, People

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• I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

  Steven Morrissey

  Sides, Bright Side

  "Papal attraction" by Douglas Coupland, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2006.

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• When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, Face to Face and so on.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Moving, Eggs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Believe, Giving, Desire

  W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram. The rigors of learning how to do long division have been a traditional part of childhood, just like learning to smoke. In fact, as far as I am concerned, the two go hand in hand. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Sleep, Hands

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• A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Sound, Doe

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.27, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Running, Loving Life, America

  David Wojnarowicz (1990). “David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame”, University Galleries

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• Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

  Horace

  Thinking, Literature, May

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• Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

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• I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Unseen, Roles

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• By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

  David Gemmell

  Coward, Heroism, Definitions

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Knows, Either Or

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.149, Penguin

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• They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Two, Only Child

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• Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Politics, Stakes

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

  Bono

  Mean, People, Darkness

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• Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

  Stephen King

  Past, People, Knows

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Winning, Mountain

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

  George MacDonald

  Selfishness, Redemption, Littles

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7826, Delphi Classics

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• Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.

  Nicole Krauss

  Gone, Rooms, Youth

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

  Markus Zusak

  Mistake, Seems

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Only children believe they're capable of everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Believe, Only Child

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