A Quote by Horace Walpole
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.
No record company in the world would say, 'We're not promoting if you keep calling somebody a snitch.' They know what makes money. A record company would never be that stupid. Ever.
It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.
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I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.
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Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.
Are you suggesting we pull a little good cop, bad cop scenario on him? And You're even letting me be the bad cop?" He bowed his head. "That, my pretera, is how much I love you." "You have never been sexier than at this very moment." "It is a shame we have so much company," he agreed quietly.
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