Quote by Jean Anouilh
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in histo

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it. – Jean Anouilh

Other quotes by Jean Anouilh

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether its not just a trick of the devil. – Jean Anouilh

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God
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. – Jean Anouilh

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power
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History
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It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. – Thomas Friedman

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History

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. – Phyllis George

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History

WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens

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History

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play. – Régis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution?

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History

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Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. – Abu Bakr

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I think thats one of the most difficult things in any marriage – in order to build anything, you must be together. You cant build anything over the telephone. – Julie London

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Marriage

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didnt get hit by a bus. – Sean Astin

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Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans. – Ron Lewis

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