"I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays."

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Source : John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.73

John Gay

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“Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.”
“Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?â€ â€œOn occasion,â€ said Locke. â€œThere are contrary opinions.”
“Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.”
“First love is alright, as far as it goes.Â Last love â€“ thatâ€™s the one Iâ€™m interested in.”
“A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.”
“One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. Itâ€™s my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.”
“For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word or sentence or anything language-like, can't intelligibly be said to have meaning. An encouraging development in the last couple of decades is a return by philosophers to addressing - as nearly all people do at some time or another - the question of life's meaning.”
“I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.”

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