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Jean Giraudoux: We all know...

Jean Giraudoux: We all know...

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as...

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John Ciardi: A good question...

John Ciardi: A good question...

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear...

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John Vanbrugh: The want of...

John Vanbrugh: The want of...

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

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Maurice Maeterlinck: Remember that happiness...

Maurice Maeterlinck: Remember that happiness...

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others...

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Brendan Behan: I have never...

Brendan Behan: I have never...

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

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Theodore Roethke: I wake to...

Theodore Roethke: I wake to...

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.


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Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom...

Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom...

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edg[e], fitter to bruise than...

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Andrew Schneider: Talking is what...

Andrew Schneider: Talking is what...

Talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to...

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Yul Brynner: Et cetera, et...

Yul Brynner: Et cetera, et...

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Source: Frequent refrain in The King and I,...

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Michael Caine: I read books...

Michael Caine: I read books...

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

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John Barrymore: Speech-making is exactly...

John Barrymore: Speech-making is exactly...

Speech-making is exactly like childbirth. You are so glad to get it over with.

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Michael Douglas: Everything's so repressive...

Michael Douglas: Everything's so repressive...

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to...

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William Carlos Williams: I think all...

William Carlos Williams: I think all...

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

Source: In Newsweek, 7 Jan...

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Joaquin Miller: Fame lulls the...

Joaquin Miller: Fame lulls the...

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes
Us feel that we have grasp'd an...

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Joyce Kilmer: It is stern...

Joyce Kilmer: It is stern...

It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun
And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm...

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Frank Crane: It takes so...

Frank Crane: It takes so...

It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight...

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Charlie Chaplin: In the end,...

Charlie Chaplin: In the end,...

In the end, everything is a gag.

Source: From Charades, an internet collection of...

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Mary Astor: A person without...

Mary Astor: A person without...

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an...

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Joan Collins: The secret of...

Joan Collins: The secret of...

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

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Henri Rousseau: The landscapist lives...

Henri Rousseau: The landscapist lives...

The landscapist lives in silence.

Source: Rousseau: An Autobiography, 1935.
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