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Hermann Goering: Guns will make...

Hermann Goering: Guns will make...

Guns will make us powerful; butter will make us fat.

Source: Radio Broadcast,...

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Douglas Coupland: I want pills...

Douglas Coupland: I want pills...

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never...

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John Oliver Killens: The Negro loves...

John Oliver Killens: The Negro loves...

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be...

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Rudolph Fisher: Maybe . ....

Rudolph Fisher: Maybe . ....

Maybe . . . she ain't so possible as she looks.

Source: Common Meter.
-- Rudolph...

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Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Source: Judge, in The Chalk Garden, act...

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Eden Phillpotts: The people sensible...

Eden Phillpotts: The people sensible...

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

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Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Source: Spinks, in Under the...

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Thomas Hardy: Everybody is so...

Thomas Hardy: Everybody is so...

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who...

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Jack Kerouac: You can't teach...

Jack Kerouac: You can't teach...

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Source: On the Road, Pt. I.
-- Jack...

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Jean Genet: Anyone who knows...

Jean Genet: Anyone who knows...

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Source: Prisoner of...

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Harper Lee: Real courage is...

Harper Lee: Real courage is...

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter...

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George MacDonald: Beauty and sadness...

George MacDonald: Beauty and sadness...

Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: The most engaging...

William Makepeace Thackeray: The most engaging...

The most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things...

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Peter Abrahams: With Shakespeare and...

Peter Abrahams: With Shakespeare and...

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired...

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Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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Leo Rosten: Words must surely...

Leo Rosten: Words must surely...

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

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Faith Baldwin: You cannot contribute...

Faith Baldwin: You cannot contribute...

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach,...

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Edward Dahlberg: There is a...

Edward Dahlberg: There is a...

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world...

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Alexander Woollcott: Many of us...

Alexander Woollcott: Many of us...

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: Man is an...

Augusto Roa Bastos: Man is an...

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without...

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