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Annie Elizabeth Delany: When Negroes are...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: When Negroes are...

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: To hell with...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: To hell with...

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

Source:...

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Thomas Carlyle: It is a...

Thomas Carlyle: It is a...

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: There is no...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: There is no...

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

Source:...

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Eldridge Cleaver: What America demands...

Eldridge Cleaver: What America demands...

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial...

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Some folks can...

Some folks can...

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Source: In...

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The fence around...

The fence around...

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get...

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Immature artists imitate....

Immature artists imitate....

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Source: Esquire Magazine,...

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Frank Tyger: The ultimate test...

Frank Tyger: The ultimate test...

The ultimate test of whether you possess a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you you...

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Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

You're the unfortunate contradiction in terms -- a serious good person.

Source: The...

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Oscar Wilde: The tragedy of...

Oscar Wilde: The tragedy of...

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Source: Lord...

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Thomas Campbell: The popularity of...

Thomas Campbell: The popularity of...

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the...

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Everything I do,...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Everything I do,...

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage,...

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Benjamin Harrison: Great lives never...

Benjamin Harrison: Great lives never...

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Aneurin Bevan: I read the...

Aneurin Bevan: I read the...

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Source: In...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: I thought I...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: I thought I...

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only...

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Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

Gertrude Stein: The unreal is...

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what...

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Red Auerbach: Basketball is like...

Red Auerbach: Basketball is like...

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to...

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A bargain is...

A bargain is...

A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

Source: In The...

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[Kennedy] did not...

[Kennedy] did not...

[Kennedy] did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent....

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