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• Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Notebook, Hate

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• Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

  Pierre Corneille

  Betrayal, Hate, Rome

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• If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done sloppily. It betrays the story. It can slow down the energy of the story you're telling.

  Steve Dildarian

  Trying, Energy, Stories

  "HitFix Interview: ‘The Life and Times of Tim’ creator Steve Dildarian". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 17, 2010.

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• One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Soul, Sticks, Traitor

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us.

  Nelson Mandela

  Loyal, Pool, South

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• I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born

  George Mason

  Country, Ambition, Son

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• If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.

  Robert Trivers

  Strong, Communication, Animal

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• I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. .I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, . and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout . . . "Yes." .I want to know if you can get up . weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done. .I want to know what sustains you . when all else falls away.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Betrayal, Fall, Lakes

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• In life the turn coat (traitor) is never trustworthy by either side. The one that he betrayed will hate him and the other that benefited from his treachery will fear him. After all what is going to stop the "turn coat" from betraying him as well.

  Artur Pawlowski

  Hate, Coats, Betrayed

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• Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation. 

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Passion, Grandchildren, Play

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• We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

  Helen Keller

  Thinking, Choices, Each Day

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.164, Matthew Gordon

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• Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

  Louis L'Amour

  Feet, Evil, Submission

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Haunted Mesa”, p.258, Bantam

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• A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

  Demetri Martin

  Eye, Looks, Idiot

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• It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

  George Orwell

  Important, Alive, 1984 Movie

  "Fictional character: Winston Smith". "1984", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, Blood, Conqueror

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.291

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• [Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Aversion, Sovereign

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.886, Modern Library

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• The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent...He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.

  John Ralston Saul

  People, Faithful, Causes

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• So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.

  Jason Jones

  Children, Father, Struggle

  "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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• Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Waiting, Deconstruction, Slips

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• If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Revenge, Hate

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• Let the dry eyes perceive
  Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
  By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.

  Dylan Thomas

  Lying, Eye, Loss

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

  Laurence Sterne

  Blessing, Doors, Law

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.513

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• Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
  with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring
  with replacing the noun. It is doing that always
  doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.
  Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and
  pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is
  what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no
  matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a
  great many kinds of poetry.

  Gertrude Stein

  Poetry, Doe, Nouns

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”

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• The present necessarily betrays the past.

  Mason Cooley

  Past

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• Can it be chat modesty may more betray
  Our sense than woman's lightness?

  William Shakespeare

  May, Modesty, Lightness

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