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- The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
- Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
- Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968)
- Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
- Lenore Hershey
- We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
- Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
- I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- The unspoken word never does harm.
- Kossuth
- So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.
- Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
- D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- [The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost
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