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I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real… — Nicolas Cage
One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding… — Satchel Paige
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind,… — Ben Okri
Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read… — Helen Oyeyemi
Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed — Douglas MacArthur
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they… — Erica Jong
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey
Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess… — Martin Amis
I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do.… — Rod Stewart
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I… — George Orwell
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice… — Thomas Jefferson
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never… — Kurt Vonnegut
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a… — George Orwell
What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciouslyÂ â€” but you don't.Â It proceeds from your… — Woody Allen
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in… — W. E. B. Du Bois
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate… — Carl Jung
The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of… — Will Durant
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something… — Pauline Kael
There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other. — E. L. James
I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or a Christian bomb.… — Muammar al-Gaddafi

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