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Tom Stoppard: The truth is...

Tom Stoppard: The truth is...

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to...

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Tennessee Williams: If the writing...

Tennessee Williams: If the writing...

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Source:...

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Peter Ustinov: I'm convinced there's...

Peter Ustinov: I'm convinced there's...

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to...

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W C Fields: The first thing...

W C Fields: The first thing...

The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his...

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W C Fields: Never give a...

W C Fields: Never give a...

Never give a sucker an even break.

Source: Film title.
-- W C Fields, (Jan 29...

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Charlie Chaplin: You have to...

Charlie Chaplin: You have to...

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street...

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Will Rogers: Communism to me...

Will Rogers: Communism to me...

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Source: Wit and...

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Basil Bunting: The mystic purchases...

Basil Bunting: The mystic purchases...

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and...

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Theodore Roethke: I wake to...

Theodore Roethke: I wake to...

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.


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Denzel Washington: Luck is where...

Denzel Washington: Luck is where...

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Source: In Words of the Week, Jet, 7...

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Cary Grant: I improve on...

Cary Grant: I improve on...

I improve on misquotation.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Jack Nicholson: In my last...

Jack Nicholson: In my last...

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half...

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Jack Nicholson: A star on...

Jack Nicholson: A star on...

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without...

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Ben Stein: There is no...

Ben Stein: There is no...

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the...

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Tristan Bernard: When we are...

Tristan Bernard: When we are...

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach too near and gaze on it in shop...

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Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by...

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Friedrich von Schiller: The great happiness...

Friedrich von Schiller: The great happiness...

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical...

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Paul Eldridge: Many a necklace...

Paul Eldridge: Many a necklace...

Many a necklace becomes a noose.

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

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Vita Sackville-West: I have come...

Vita Sackville-West: I have come...

I have come to the conclusion after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at...

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Marcel Pagnol: One has to...

Marcel Pagnol: One has to...

One has to look out for engineers -- they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic...

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