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Walter Benjamin: He who observes...

Walter Benjamin: He who observes...

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no...

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Classical music is...

Classical music is...

Classical music is the kind we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

Source: In...

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Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery,...

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Beth Henley: He started hating...

Beth Henley: He started hating...

He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes...

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William Wycherley: He's a fool...

William Wycherley: He's a fool...

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool;
what is wit in a wife good for, but to...

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Richard Armour: I've suffered from...

Richard Armour: I've suffered from...

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known,
And none is as bad as the telephone.


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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: In Russia all...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: In Russia all...

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Source: A Precocious...

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Robert Browning: A minute's success...

Robert Browning: A minute's success...

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Dustin Hoffman: One thing about...

Dustin Hoffman: One thing about...

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. ...

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Agnes George DeMille: Theater people are...

Agnes George DeMille: Theater people are...

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America...

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Robert Mitchum: People think I...

Robert Mitchum: People think I...

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: What we have...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: What we have...

What we have to do . . . is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our...

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Anna Julia Cooper: I constantly felt...

Anna Julia Cooper: I constantly felt...

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning...

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Barbara Tuchman: What his imagination...

Barbara Tuchman: What his imagination...

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection,...

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Eden Phillpotts: His father's sister...

Eden Phillpotts: His father's sister...

His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

Source: My First...

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Eldridge Cleaver: Respect commands itself...

Eldridge Cleaver: Respect commands itself...

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

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Peter Arno: Well, back to...

Peter Arno: Well, back to...

Well, back to the old drawing board.

Source: Caption to a cartoon of people leaving...

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Christopher Isherwood: I'll bet Shakespeare...

Christopher Isherwood: I'll bet Shakespeare...

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some...

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Francis Beaumont: Interest makes some...

Francis Beaumont: Interest makes some...

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Source: In Correct...

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Henry John Newbolt: He clapped the...

Henry John Newbolt: He clapped the...

He clapped the glass to his sightless eye,
And 'I'm damned if I see it', he said.


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