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The ordinariness of...

The ordinariness of...

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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Peter De Vries: There are times...

Peter De Vries: There are times...

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

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Richard Bach: As you believe,...

Richard Bach: As you believe,...

As you believe, so it is for you.

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-- Richard Bach, (Jun 23 1936-____),...

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Martin Amis: Bullets cannot be...

Martin Amis: Bullets cannot be...

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the...

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Joseph Heller: The enemy is...

Joseph Heller: The enemy is...

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

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Guillaume Apollinaire: Memories are hunting...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Memories are hunting...

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

Source: Cors de...

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Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

Mary McCarthy: I am putting...

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Source: On The Group,, her 1963...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad...

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Jean Toomer: Talk about it...

Jean Toomer: Talk about it...

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand...

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Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of...

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Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

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Wilkie Collins: I am not...

Wilkie Collins: I am not...

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

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Benjamin Jowett: Research! A mere...

Benjamin Jowett: Research! A mere...

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest...

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Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

Benjamin Jowett: It is most...

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

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Emma Hart Willard: The education of...

Emma Hart Willard: The education of...

The education of females has been exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and...

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Mark Hopkins: Our prayer and...

Mark Hopkins: Our prayer and...

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other...

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Diane Ravitch: Most people believe...

Diane Ravitch: Most people believe...

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Fear is not...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Fear is not...

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Source: A...

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Pliny the Elder: Men are most...

Pliny the Elder: Men are most...

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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