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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
– Logan Pearsall Smith

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  3. The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we’re chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  4. I’m quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by a padded cell. – Tanya Masse
  5. He was desire, and I was his prisoner, chained up by his kisses. Submissive to his touch. – Candace Knoebel
  6. …most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. – Idries Shah
  7. The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  8. That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panem et Circen. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Money isn’t enough. Happiness takes more than a padded bank account. – Diana Palmer
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  11. Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. – Neil Gaiman
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  14. Frodo! Mr. Frodo, my dear!’ cried Sam, tears almost blinding him. ‘It’s Sam, I’ve come!’ He half lifted his master and hugged him to his breast. – JRR Tolkien
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  17. We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck. – Parul Wadhwa
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  19. Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness. – Seth Adam Smith
  20. Looking at a king’s mouth, ‘ said an old man, ‘one would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast. – Chinua Achebe
  21. …how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast? – Edith Wharton
  22. You are born to be wild but end up being named, tamed and chained. – Haresh Sippy
  23. Rather be a thin dog that is free than a fat one chained – Thabiso Monkoe
  24. Rather be a thin dog free, than to be a fat one chained – Thabiso Monkoe
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  26. We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul. – Shannon L Alder
  27. Zeitgeist -“ spirit of the age. No such thing. Imposition by hierarchy. People rebel -“ & are marginalised; or follow, chained. – Anthony North
  28. They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies. – Bruno Schulz
  29. Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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  33. No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness — happiness on my own terms. – Anna Bayes
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  36. To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of. – Craig D Lounsbrough
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  39. My goal is to do something outrageous every day. – Maggie Kuhn
  40. Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes – Falcon Dove

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