"Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others."

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Source : John Kendrick Bangs (2015). “The Water Ghost and Others: Bangs Classic Collection”, p.11, 谷月社

John Kendrick Bangs

#Giving Quotes #Misery Quotes #Stores Quotes

“I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20.”
“God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.195
“I don't really need to appeal to some stockbroker, and I always sort of root for the underdog. I probably consider all that when I'm writing, but it's not in the forefront of my brain.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute!”
“Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.”
“When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.”

Source : Elsa Barker (1928). “The Cobra Candlestick”
“I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.”
“Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.”

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