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- You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge")
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- M. Mabeuf's political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
(Virginia Woolf, "Orlando")
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- Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
(Tennessee Williams, "A Streetcar Named Desire")
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- There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.
(Terry Goodkind, "Wizard's First Rule")
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- Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
(Thomas Hardy, "Far from the Madding Crowd")
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- He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.
(Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried")
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- I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.
(Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man")
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- Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.
(Nicholas Sparks, "The Lucky One")
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- We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.
(Louis-Ferdinand Céline, "Journey to the End of the Night")
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- You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
(Kazuo Ishiguro, "Never Let Me Go")
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- I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
(Jonathan Safran Foer, "Everything is Illuminated")
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- Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.
(Jacqueline Susann, "Valley of the Dolls")
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- It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
(Jane Austen, "Emma")
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- What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
(Jane Austen, "Northanger Abbey")
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