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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
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beauty
conceit
humor
love
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William Goldman |
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I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!
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conceit
percy-jackson
self-esteem
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Rick Riordan |
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National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
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astronomy
conceit
earth
folly
human-nature
nationalism
pride
science
space
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Carl Sagan |
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"Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time."
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chance
conceit
human
improve
opportunity
promise
strive
time
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Robin Hobb |
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"Do you wish to speak in Provencal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provencal. "Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement."
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communication
conceit
languages
mockery
papal-authority
pope
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Iain Pears |
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"The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, . He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that - and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych". I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: "I wrote a diptych."
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conceit
critique
diptychs
grandeur
novelists
novels
reviews
self-importance
writers
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Colm Tóibín |