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- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
- Juan Ramon Jiminez
- Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
- Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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