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A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name? — Mercedes Lackey
I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it… — Ingmar Bergman
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process… — Wynton Marsalis
Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and… — Oliver Stone
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears… — Mahatma Gandhi
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the… — Mahatma Gandhi
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. — Alan Furst
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman. — Patricia Highsmith
I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't… — Karolina Kurkova
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as… — Jonathan Lethem
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths:… — Darin Strauss
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. — Democritus
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else. — Barbara Hambly
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasionâ€¦You must… — Richard Baxter
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. — Emile M. Cioran
I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody… — Alan Sillitoe
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights. — Kate Bush
Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too. — Liz Phair
In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at… — Clive James
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. — Daniel Keys Moran

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