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Kingman Brewster, Jr: I'm very curious...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: I'm very curious...

I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't...

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Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Miguel de Unamuno: Science is a...

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913.
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Robert Hayden: We must not...

Robert Hayden: We must not...

We must not be frightened nor cajoled
into accepting evil as deliverance from evil.
We must go on struggling to...

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V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

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V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer...

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Richard Bach: Do you know...

Richard Bach: Do you know...

Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we...

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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A Philip Randolph: Nothing counts but...

A Philip Randolph: Nothing counts but...

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass...

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Vida Blue: It's a weird...

Vida Blue: It's a weird...

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with...

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Reggie Jackson: I feel that...

Reggie Jackson: I feel that...

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it,...

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Pat Riley: There's no such...

Pat Riley: There's no such...

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done...

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Pat Riley: Coaches who let...

Pat Riley: Coaches who let...

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

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Sports do not...

Sports do not...

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Source: In Sports in America, by...

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A women under...

A women under...

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by...

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All official institutions...

All official institutions...

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all...

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Film criticism became...

Film criticism became...

Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society...

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You can't enjoy...

You can't enjoy...

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Source: Introduction to The Norton...

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Sex can no...

Sex can no...

Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner,...

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I don't believe...

I don't believe...

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being...

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It rarely adds...

It rarely adds...

It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you...

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