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• It is not our comment on the Word that saves, but the Word itself.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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• Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pity, Misfortunes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.

  Katharine Hepburn

  School, Character, Essence

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• There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Encouragement, Lying, Class

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance. . . . The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat.

  Robertson Davies

  Distance, Drama, Writing

  Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA

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• Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my dreams. They would be a joke, a piece of a novel, a witticism or a piece of dialogue from a play, and I would dream them. I would actually express them line by line in the dream. Sometimes after waking up I would remember a snatch or two and write them down. There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Writing, Play

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• We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

  Jane Addams

  Intellectual, Done, Spheres

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

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• The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

  Sara Sheridan

  Criticism, Level Playing Field, Levels

  "Why Writers Must Embrace Social Media, No Matter the Genre". www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.

  James Frey

  Thinking, People, Literature

  "The Rumpus Interview With James Frey". Interview with Stephen Elliot, therumpus.net. January 20, 2009.

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• She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Dirty, Thinking

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.298, Penguin UK

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• This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.

  David Levithan

  Character, Reality, Giving

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• You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to.

  Richelle Mead

  Guy, Say Anything, Passive Aggressive

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Gameboard of the Gods: Age of X”, p.347, Penguin

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• So, let's make a deal: If you do not voice all the withering comments about the weight or uselessness of this jacket that are no doubt swirling in that big brain of yours, then I will not mention the super-laser episode again. Agreed?" This jacket is really cutting into my shoulders, thought Artemis. And it's so heavy that I could not outrun a slug. But he said, "Agreed.

  Eoin Colfer

  Cutting, Voice, Brain

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• It's important to be aware of how we treat others. Even though someone appears to shrug off a sideways comment or to not be affected by a rumor, it's impossible to know everything else going on in that person's life, how we might be adding to his/her pain. People do have an impact on the lives of others; that's undeniable.

  Jay Asher

  Pain, Impact, People

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.298, Penguin

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• She pulled away. “I missed you, Percy.” Percy wanted to tell her the same thing, but it seemed too small a comment. While he had been on the Roman side, he’d kept himself alive almost solely by thinking of Annabeth. I missed you didn’t really cover that.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Annabeth, Alive

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• I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name

  Sarah Dessen

  Goodbye, Moving, Farewell

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.24, Penguin UK

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• She took a bad tumble. Those are some nasty bruises she's carrying," the maid said with a sad shake of the head. "Aye," Cullen agreed, his eyes traveling over lovely, milky white skin, interrupted by several black bruises. "She looks like a cow." Mildrede turned a horrified gaze on him at the comment, but he was more concerned by the choked sound that came from his bride. He really hadn't meant it as an insult, but it seemed the women were taking it so. "I just meant the coloring," Cullen muttered

  Lynsay Sands

  Eye, White, Lovely

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• The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric - but some of the comments and communications and gestures she gets in the wake of that success are stunningly and atrociously over-personal, as if suddenly people feel like they know her and her life intimately, and have permission to transgress all her "life" boundaries.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Communication, Talking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

  Joyce Meyer

  Confidence, Mean, Choices

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “Eat the Cookie...Buy the Shoes: Giving Yourself Permission to Lighten Up”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

  W. H. Auden

  Science, Wish, Events

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• Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.

  Ann Coulter

  Night, Cost, Oscars

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• Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ironic, Everyday, Flippant

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

  Frank Herbert

  Criticism, Looks, Use

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.224, Macmillan

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• My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory.

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Victory, Borders

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• I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

  Kanye West

  Artist, Rapper, Years

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