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- Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of…
- In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity…
- It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up…
- The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter…
- My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin…
- In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of…
- What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of…
- Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure…
- Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
- Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that…
- A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all…
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- If she didn't reply to any of your 20 texts, she probably doesn't have good cell service. Definitely don't stop texting her. — Nikhil Saluja
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi