Dubious Quotes

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If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp… — Michael Pollan
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me,… — J M Coetzee
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its… — Aberjhani
I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic… — M. Scott Peck
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of… — Elwyn Brooks White
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. — Wallace Stegner
But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are.… — Robertson Davies
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind… — James Dickey
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an… — Susan Sontag
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. — Julian Barnes
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing… — Eric Alterman
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants. — Dick Cavett
This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of Johnâ€™s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but… — Brian D. McLaren
Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living. — John Kufuor
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. — William Cowper
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit. — Paul Klee
I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly… — Guy Pearce
I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or… — Harry Leslie Smith

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