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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
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Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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Christopher Hampton
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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Ernie Kovacs
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
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Gloria Pitzer, in Reader's Digest, 1979
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
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Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
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J. E. Buchrose
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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