Ernest Gowers famous quotes

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  • The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

  • If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

  • I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

  • 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.

  • I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

  • Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

  • A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  • We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

  • 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.

  • If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.