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Ought Quotes - Page 7

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Winston Churchill (1956). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The birth of Britain”, McClelland & Stewart

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3187, e-artnow

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.9, OUP Oxford

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

"Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.