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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists. — Annalena McAfee Copy Share Image
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I bargain even in departmental stores to get special discount on their 'best prize!' I mean why should the corporate companies make… — Rupali Ganguly Copy Share Image
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Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
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I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes. — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails. — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
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I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...]… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
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