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The Rules

«Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.»
«Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.»
«If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun»
Author: Katharine Hepburn | Keywords: fun, miss, obey, rules, The Rules
«If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere»
«For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness»
Author: Terence (Dramatist, Playwright) | About: Advice, Love, Madness | Keywords: Rules of, The Rules
«Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game»
«[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.»
«If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.»
Author: Katharine Hepburn | Keywords: obey, rules, The Rules
«Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.»
«If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time»

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