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- Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Mother Night
- I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
- Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
- The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg
- It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
- Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
- Robert Jackson
- Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
- J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)
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