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Tennessee Williams: If the writing...

Tennessee Williams: If the writing...

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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Genius is a...

Genius is a...

Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble.

Source: The...

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Dandyism is. ....

Dandyism is. ....

Dandyism is. . . a variety of genius.

Source: The Spirit Of The Age, Lord Byron ...

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Character in decay...

Character in decay...

Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.

Source: In...

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Edward De Bono: Many highly intelligent...

Edward De Bono: Many highly intelligent...

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power...

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The bastard form...

The bastard form...

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition. . . always new books, new programs, new films, news items,...

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G C Lichtenberg: If an angel...

G C Lichtenberg: If an angel...

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2...

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Samuel Foote: So she went...

Samuel Foote: So she went...

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming...

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Edward De Bono: Some people drift...

Edward De Bono: Some people drift...

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment....

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Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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James Thurber: He who hesitates...

James Thurber: He who hesitates...

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Source: Folks of Our Time
-- James Thurber,...

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Mark Twain: He has been...

Mark Twain: He has been...

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their...

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Mark Twain: When a person...

Mark Twain: When a person...

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other...

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Nelson A Rockefeller: Others looked at...

Nelson A Rockefeller: Others looked at...

Others looked at radio and saw a gadget; his genius lay in his capacity to look at the same thing . . . but to see far...

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Edward De Bono: Removing the faults...

Edward De Bono: Removing the faults...

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor...

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Let's not burn...

Let's not burn...

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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By taking a...

By taking a...

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by shewing that she made him so happy as a...

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The role of...

The role of...

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Source: Recalled at his...

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I have a...

I have a...

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy.

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If you have...

If you have...

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

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