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Edmond Rostand: I recoil, overcome...

Edmond Rostand: I recoil, overcome...

I recoil, overcome with the glory of my rosy hue and the knowledge that I, a mere cock, have made the sun...

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Alan Bennett: We started trying...

Alan Bennett: We started trying...

We started trying to set up a small anarchist community, but the people wouldn't obey the...

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Moli?re: Oh how fine...

Moli?re: Oh how fine...

Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Source: In The Book of Success, ed....

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George S Kaufman: I understand your...

George S Kaufman: I understand your...

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

Source: Remark to Howard...

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Alan Jay Lerner: All I want...

Alan Jay Lerner: All I want...

All I want is a room somewhere,
Far away from the cold night air;
With one enormous chair . . .
Oh, wouldn't...

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John Fletcher: Love is like...

John Fletcher: Love is like...

Love is like linen often changed, the sweeter.

Source: Sicelides, III. v
-- John...

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Alexis Carrel: Those who desire...

Alexis Carrel: Those who desire...

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride . . . the omnipotence...

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Alexis Carrel: Comforts and syphilis...

Alexis Carrel: Comforts and syphilis...

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Source: In Inspiring...

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Leon Battista Alberti: Painting is possessed...

Leon Battista Alberti: Painting is possessed...

Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many...

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Maya Ying Lin: It terrified me...

Maya Ying Lin: It terrified me...

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally...

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Frank Lloyd Wright: I hate intellectuals....

Frank Lloyd Wright: I hate intellectuals....

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

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Frank Lloyd Wright: Early in life...

Frank Lloyd Wright: Early in life...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have...

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Bernard Berenson: I would I...

Bernard Berenson: I would I...

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted...

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Bernard Berenson: Life has taught...

Bernard Berenson: Life has taught...

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated but for our...

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Bernard Berenson: A complete life...

Bernard Berenson: A complete life...

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the nonself that there is no self left to...

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Bernard Berenson: German is of...

Bernard Berenson: German is of...

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English,...

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Claude Monet: I would advise...

Claude Monet: I would advise...

I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly ....

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Vincent Van Gogh: Even the knowledge...

Vincent Van Gogh: Even the knowledge...

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up...

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Charles Schulz: The way I...

Charles Schulz: The way I...

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

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Gilbert Adair: [Postmodernism] represents a...

Gilbert Adair: [Postmodernism] represents a...

[Postmodernism] represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an...

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