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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Ellery Channing

Thought

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

William Ellery Channing

Man

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Coco Chanel

Boredom

Man

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Coco Chanel

Man

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Raymond Chandler

Doubt

Man

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Raymond Chandler

Man

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Care

First

Man

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Adelbert von Chamisso

Man

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

Adelbert von Chamisso

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.