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Ben Hecht: I discovered early...

Ben Hecht: I discovered early...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There...

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Thomas Love Peacock: He was sent,...

Thomas Love Peacock: He was sent,...

He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to...

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James Agee: When he ran...

James Agee: When he ran...

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to...

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James Agee: God doesn't believe...

James Agee: God doesn't believe...

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Source: In The Book of Southern Wisdom, by...

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Sir Walter Scott: The half hour...

Sir Walter Scott: The half hour...

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my...

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Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about...

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Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

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Jean Genet: Perhaps all music,...

Jean Genet: Perhaps all music,...

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay...

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Max Frisch: It's precisely the...

Max Frisch: It's precisely the...

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true...

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Rachel Field: I used to...

Rachel Field: I used to...

I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...

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Katherine Paterson: The name we...

Katherine Paterson: The name we...

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

Source: In Words of...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Wise Man: One...

Edgar Watson Howe: Wise Man: One...

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

Source: The...

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G K Chesterton: The most dangerous...

G K Chesterton: The most dangerous...

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists...

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G K Chesterton: You shouldn't take...

G K Chesterton: You shouldn't take...

You shouldn't take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Source:...

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Daniel Boorstin: Education is learning...

Daniel Boorstin: Education is learning...

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Source: In The...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

General notions are generally wrong.

Source: From an Internet collection of...

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Erica Jong: Advice is what...

Erica Jong: Advice is what...

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

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Antonin Scalia: A search is...

Antonin Scalia: A search is...

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a...

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Lao-Tzu: A journey of...

Lao-Tzu: A journey of...

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.
A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of...

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Lao-Tzu: Govern a great...

Lao-Tzu: Govern a great...

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

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