Ernest Gowers famous quotes
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I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.
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That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.
-- Ernest Gowers
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved
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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
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You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.
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If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.
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