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Quoting, like smoking,...

Quoting, like smoking,...

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Source: In The...

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Everyone is a...

Everyone is a...

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to...

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The real trap...

The real trap...

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

Source: Monroe According to Mailer,...

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AIDS occupies such...

AIDS occupies such...

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very...

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Honesty has come...

Honesty has come...

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting...

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I wonder if...

I wonder if...

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we...

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Knut Hamsun: Language must resound...

Knut Hamsun: Language must resound...

Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word...

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Italo Calvino: What Romantic terminology...

Italo Calvino: What Romantic terminology...

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder...

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John Aubrey: When he killed...

John Aubrey: When he killed...

When he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.

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Stephen Leacock: Personally, I would...

Stephen Leacock: Personally, I would...

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia...

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Christopher Lasch: Information, usually seen...

Christopher Lasch: Information, usually seen...

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its...

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Sarah Louise Delany: Life is short,...

Sarah Louise Delany: Life is short,...

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.

Source: In Words to Make My...

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Allan Bloom: We are like...

Allan Bloom: We are like...

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Source: On...

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Henry David Thoreau: I know of...

Henry David Thoreau: I know of...

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious...

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George Orwell: Advertising is the...

George Orwell: Advertising is the...

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Source: In Quotable...

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Source: In Writers at Work,...

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Gail Pursell Elliott: Life?s lessons may...

Gail Pursell Elliott: Life?s lessons may...

Life?s lessons may be viewed as difficulties or challenges to be overcome, but in reality they are an exercise in fine...

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