If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

—Jules Renard

fear loneliness right correctness

About Jules Renard

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Pierre-Jules Renard (pronounced [pjɛʁ ʒyl ʁənaʁ]; 22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910) was a French novelist, playwright, and diarist. He was a member of the Académie Goncourt and is acclaimed for Poil de carotte (Carrot Top, 1894), a bitterly ironical account of his own childhood. His other famous works...

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I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

—Jules Renard

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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

—Jules Renard

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Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

—Jules Renard

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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

—Jules Renard

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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

—Jules Renard

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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The weirdest thing of all is that it feels so right. I suppose it's true what they say, you never know it's right until it is, although I'm really scared of saying that out loud just in case he turns out to be a bastard, but somehow I don't think he will.

—Jane Green in Mr. Maybe

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Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

—Bernard Baruch

In a quarrel, each side is right.

—Yiddish folk saying

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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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