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• Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

  Alan Moore

  Liars, Self, Dust

  "Correspondence From Hell: Part 3". Cerebus, issue 219, 2003.

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• Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  "Old stone face cracks". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

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• At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

  Sean William Scott

  Character, Careers, Phases

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• Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

  Steven Morrissey

  Mtv, Long, Records

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• A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Stars, Humor

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• love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Men, Europe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.666, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Confusion, Ruins, Facts

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• It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

  Nikolai Gogol

  Eye, Let It Go, Finishing

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.93, Vintage

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• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  Naomi Wolf

  Ignorance, Oil, America

  "America's drought of political will on climate change" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2012.

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• As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.33, Vintage

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• I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

  Lawrence Welk

  Nice, Successful, Pitfalls

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

  Donatella Versace

  Powerful, Men, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Done, Ingredients

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Nov 23, 2016

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• Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Bird, Sometimes, Time Passing

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us. On a night like this, hands and faces hot, we can believe that tomorrow will show us angels in jars and that the well-known woods will suddenly reveal another path.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Growing Up, Children, Lying

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• Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

  Milan Kundera

  Relationship, Sex, Facts

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• As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

  Cameron Dokey

  Opportunity, Space, Imagination

  Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Poison, Defense

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• Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Order, Effort

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• It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.

  Frans de Waal

  Leopards, Apes, Spontaneous

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• I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

  Bob Woodward

  College, Names, Stories

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• Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren't quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In the beginning, a lover drank in every word and gesture and then tried to hold on to that intensity for as long as possible. But inevitable, if two people were together long enough, that intensity had to wane.

  Anita Shreve

  Two, Long, People

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• Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Marriage, Air

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• If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, People, Vampire

  "The Social Contract". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762.

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• Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Years, Have Faith, Dominion

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