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- I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
- Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870)
- Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
- Miguel de Unamuno (1864 - 1936)
- I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
- Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)
- People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.
- James Agee (1909 - 1955), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
- Jerry Falwell (1933 - )
- Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
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