Quote by Janet Frame
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually ma

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. – Janet Frame

Other quotes by Janet Frame

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame

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Imagination
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, were always in other places, lost, like sheep. – Janet Frame

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Travel
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Persuasion
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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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Persuasion

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

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Persuasion

The tongue can paint what the eye cant see. – Chinese Proverb

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Persuasion

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. – Thomas Aquinas

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Persuasion

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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. – Eddie Izzard

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No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain. – Randolph Churchill

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Taxation

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. – Lemony Snicket

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Speaking

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. – Robert Anton Wilson

Category:
communication