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The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
— Robert McKee
When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.
— John D. Barrow
The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself. SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD
— Kate Atkinson
When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.
— Robert McKee
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
— Margaret Drabble
Only one possibility remains: the movement by which the will turns from enjoying the Creator to enjoying his creatures belongs to the will itself.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Our true nature doesn't need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.
— Ilchi Lee
I have always believed that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion; the illusion is the tunnel itself.
— Sam Harris
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
— Pablo Picasso
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.
— Saul Williams
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
— Maria Mitchell
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
— Thomas Kuhn
The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
— Bess Truman
Is there an option C? Take a vacation somewhere sunny, and drink a lot of rum until the world unfucks itself?
— Devon Monk
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
— P.L. Travers
Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.
— Eraldo Banovac
To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
— Patrick Soon-Shiong
Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.
— Eckhart Tolle
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
— George Eliot
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
— Taylor Swift
Her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body than the body itself.
— Lauren Groff
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
— Anthony Burgess
My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.
— Kelly McGonigal
Standing is symbolic of life itself,
Open space is just a distance between you and someone else — Mira Midha
Open space is just a distance between you and someone else — Mira Midha
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
— Nancy Mitford
Two very simple rules:
A. You don't have to write.
B. You can't do anything else
The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler
A. You don't have to write.
B. You can't do anything else
The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter ...
— Henri Matisse
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
— George Santayana
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
— Ada Lovelace
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
— Roger Scruton
... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.
— Rebecca Solnit
Anger is not inappropriate in and of itself. But there
— W. Robert Nay
And as long as the outcome of any combination of two or more members is itself a member of the group.
— Paul Watzlawick
We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is.
— Salman Rushdie
Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.
— James Richardson
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
— Benjamin Tucker
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
— Plato
The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I got down there about nine, under a hard high October moon that lost itself in the top layers of a beach fog.
— Raymond Chandler
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
— Ray Bradbury
Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
— Anne Fadiman
Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
— Zachary Levi
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
— Ugo Betti
The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
— C.S. Lewis
Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.
— Karl Jaspers
Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.
— W. H. Auden
Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace
— Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
— Romesh Gunesekera
The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
— Bob Goff
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.
— Rob McClure
Who can know the heart of youth except youth itself.
— Patti Smith
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality.
— Kitaro Nishida
the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They
— George Orwell
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
— Herman Melville
Misery should always place itself right in the face of mercy.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.
— Harrison Ford
Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.
— Marvin Kalb
He preached as if he had a flaming sword in his hand. Bats fell out of the rafters. The organ started up by itself. The water sloshed in the font.
— Terry Pratchett
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
— Dylan Thomas
All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.
— Kenneth Roberts
Need covers itself with love, but need ... need is never love. Always beware of the one who needs you. There is always a want behind a need, you see.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
— Michelangelo
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
— D.T. Suzuki
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
— Mary Parker Follett
It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.
— Augustine Of Hippo
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
— Mark Twain
Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live
— Mahatma Gandhi
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
— Apuleius