One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

—John Galsworthy

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About John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy (; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga, and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in...

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

—John Galsworthy

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Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

—David Letterman

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El Tornillo walks the streets of Melo. People in town think he's crazy. He carries a mirror in his hand and he looks at himself with furrowed brow. He doesn't take his eyes off the mirror. "What are you doing, Tornillo?" "I'm here," he says, "keeping watch on the enemy.

—Eduardo Galeano

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If we think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, we see that we are the earth; we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth.

—Joseph Campbell

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Look at an infantryman's eyes, and you can tell how much war he has seen.

—Bill Mauldin

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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

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