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His father, Vincent,...

His father, Vincent,...

His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and...

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Literature transforms and...

Literature transforms and...

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday...

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A politician will...

A politician will...

A politician will do anything to keep his job -- even become a patriot.

Source:...

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When all candles...

When all candles...

When all candles be out, all cats be gray.

Source: Proverbes.
-- John Heywood, (...

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Would that there...

Would that there...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful...

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If you make...

If you make...

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise...

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We demand that...

We demand that...

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be:...

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Publishing is a...

Publishing is a...

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a...

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We wallow in...

We wallow in...

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed...

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We tend not...

We tend not...

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope...

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Politeness is only...

Politeness is only...

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Source:...

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It isn't true...

It isn't true...

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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Obstacles are those...

Obstacles are those...

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

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A new idea...

A new idea...

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces
More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne.
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I almost always...

I almost always...

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit...

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He worked like...

He worked like...

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the...

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Ads push the...

Ads push the...

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures...

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I don't necessarily...

I don't necessarily...

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Source:
-- Marshall McLuhan,...

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Genius is not...

Genius is not...

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but...

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There can be...

There can be...

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

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