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Marjorie Rosen: Which is strongest...

Marjorie Rosen: Which is strongest...

Which is strongest the reality out of which the illusion is created, the celluloid illusion itself, or the need for...

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Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high...

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Elie Wiesel: Not to transmit...

Elie Wiesel: Not to transmit...

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Source: In Christian Science...

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Marquis de Sade: The more defects...

Marquis de Sade: The more defects...

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his...

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Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign...

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Oswald Spengler: Formerly no one...

Oswald Spengler: Formerly no one...

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people...

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Georg Hegel: We do not...

Georg Hegel: We do not...

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to...

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Charles Simmons: He who wants...

Charles Simmons: He who wants...

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True...

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John Oliver Killens: What a tiresome...

John Oliver Killens: What a tiresome...

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear that...

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Stephen Leacock: What we call...

Stephen Leacock: What we call...

What we call creative work ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. . . . I imagine that Thomas Edison...

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Benjamin Jowett: If you don't...

Benjamin Jowett: If you don't...

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

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Derek Bok: There is far...

Derek Bok: There is far...

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who...

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Allan Bloom: Fathers and mothers...

Allan Bloom: Fathers and mothers...

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to...

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Federico Fellini: A different language...

Federico Fellini: A different language...

A different language is a different vision of life.

Source: In New York...

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David Cronenberg: When you're in...

David Cronenberg: When you're in...

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you...

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Ray Kroc: It was not...

Ray Kroc: It was not...

It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to...

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Man Ray: I paint what...

Man Ray: I paint what...

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious...

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Saul Steinberg: People who see...

Saul Steinberg: People who see...

People who see a drawing in the New Yorker will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they...

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Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the...

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Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

Wendy Wasserstein: The real reason...

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Source: Interviews with...

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