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Elephants and grandchildren...

Elephants and grandchildren...

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Source: Tribune Media Services.
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I hated the...

I hated the...

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

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I learned that...

I learned that...

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads...

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Youth is like...

Youth is like...

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the...

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The act of...

The act of...

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Brevity is the...

Brevity is the...

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Source: In Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is...

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He lies below,...

He lies below,...

He lies below, correct in cypress wood,
And entertains the most exclusive worms.


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Rose-colored glasses are...

Rose-colored glasses are...

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in...

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Cynicism is the...

Cynicism is the...

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Source: In The...

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Men must be...

Men must be...

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is...

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Everyone realizes that...

Everyone realizes that...

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized...

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Benjamin Whichcote: The more mysterious,...

Benjamin Whichcote: The more mysterious,...

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half...

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Dagobert Runes: Experience makes for...

Dagobert Runes: Experience makes for...

Experience makes for shrewdness; it's the heart that makes for wisdom.

Source: A...

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Art and ideology...

Art and ideology...

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw...

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At the moment...

At the moment...

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Source: Quoted in: Sunday Times ...

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I've arrived at...

I've arrived at...

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I...

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Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign Fresh Fish Sold Here. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course...

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If you commit...

If you commit...

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you...

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A man has...

A man has...

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do...

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