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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...

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Philip Guedalla: Biography, like big...

Philip Guedalla: Biography, like big...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is [as] unfair as only sport can...

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Byron R White: When the whistle...

Byron R White: When the whistle...

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you...

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Byron R White: To exclude all...

Byron R White: To exclude all...

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to...

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Louis Nizer: A man who...

Louis Nizer: A man who...

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man...

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Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes,...

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Northrop Frye: Americans like to...

Northrop Frye: Americans like to...

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher...

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Max Frisch: The difference between...

Max Frisch: The difference between...

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's...

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Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

Francois Rabelais: What cannot be...

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Source: Works.
-- Francois Rabelais, ( ...

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Margot Asquith: He has a...

Margot Asquith: He has a...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Source: Referring to Sir Stafford...

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James B Conant: Democracy is a...

James B Conant: Democracy is a...

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual...

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George Steiner: Chess may be...

George Steiner: Chess may be...

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human...

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Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Source: The...

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Chuck Yeager: You do what...

Chuck Yeager: You do what...

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but...

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Oliver Cromwell: No one rises...

Oliver Cromwell: No one rises...

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

Source: In Memoires,...

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Ken Kesey: I'd rather be...

Ken Kesey: I'd rather be...

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Source: In The Electric Kool-Aid...

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Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In the consciousness...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In the consciousness...

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Where does one...

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

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