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- Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
- Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
- I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
- Doctor Who
- After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
- That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
- You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech on May 17, 2002
- A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
- We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
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