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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide… — W. Somerset Maugham
Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me. — C.E. Murphy
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them… — Peter S. Beagle
In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He… — William Faulkner
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas… — Viktor E. Frankl
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom — Gustave Flaubert
Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position. — Janet Evanovich
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of… — Milan Kundera
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread;… — Pablo Neruda
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my… — Aleister Crowley
that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a… — Jim Fergus
As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill… — Stephen King
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the… — John Steinbeck
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing. — John Steinbeck
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things. — Gregory David Roberts
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens… — Nick Hornby
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights… — Robert A. Heinlein
Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks… — Jose Saramago
The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. — David Sedaris
We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham… — Dave Barry
And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing. — Jackie Morse Kessler
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — Terry Pratchett
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. — Michael Moorcock
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand

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