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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
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Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
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That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of…
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Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,…
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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when…
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But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only…
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[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the…
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's…
— Alison Brie
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
— Alain Ducasse
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