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Mark Twain: Most people are...

Mark Twain: Most people are...

Most people are bothered by scripture they don't understand, but what bothers me are those I do...

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Joseph Heller: When I grow...

Joseph Heller: When I grow...

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Source: Something Happened.
-- Joseph...

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Joseph Heller: He was a...

Joseph Heller: He was a...

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Source: Catch-22,...

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Derek Bok: I won't say...

Derek Bok: I won't say...

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to...

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Sarah Louise Delany: . ....

Sarah Louise Delany: . ....

. . . we never worked for white people in their homes. No, sir, not even once! That is one of the accomplishments in...

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Laurence J Peter: A man convinced...

Laurence J Peter: A man convinced...

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

Source: In Quote Disk 1,2,3, by...

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Gilbert Highet: Many people have...

Gilbert Highet: Many people have...

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Wilkie Collins: I am (thank...

Wilkie Collins: I am (thank...

I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

Source: In The Forbes Book of...

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Ken Kesey: You can't really...

Ken Kesey: You can't really...

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

Source: One Flew...

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Ken Kesey: I'd rather be...

Ken Kesey: I'd rather be...

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Source: In The Electric Kool-Aid...

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Salman Rushdie: The novel does...

Salman Rushdie: The novel does...

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the...

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Lisa Alther: . . ....

Lisa Alther: . . ....

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Source: In Words of...

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Lisa Alther: I happen to...

Lisa Alther: I happen to...

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting...

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Mary Stewart: Have you ever...

Mary Stewart: Have you ever...

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, a moment ago things were not like this, let it be then, not...

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Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer...

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Mary McCarthy: People with bad...

Mary McCarthy: People with bad...

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Source: In The...

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Mary McCarthy: It has to...

Mary McCarthy: It has to...

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tears, idle tears,/I...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tears, idle tears,/I...

Tears, idle tears,/I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair,
Rise in the heart and...

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Walter Gropius: Architects, painters, and...

Walter Gropius: Architects, painters, and...

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both...

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