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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the… — Audre Lorde
Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new… — Peggy Noonan
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the… — George Orwell
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but… — William Shakespeare
I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag. — Steven Morrissey
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old… — Norman Mailer
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes. — John O'Hara
I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four… — Harry S. Truman
Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner. — Theodore Roethke
When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on… — Bill Roorbach
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really… — Anne Lamott
Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted. — Unknown Author
Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials,… — Hailee Steinfeld
The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of… — Angelo Patri
Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's… — James Dobson
In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in… — Susanna Tamaro
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with… — Uri Geller
The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the… — Robert Graves
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness… — T.E. Lawrence
This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real… — James Carville
A 17-year-old girl in Australia hacked into my e-mail while I was on it, Then a 15-year-old girl in England did the same thing. — Robert Pattinson
I don't know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I listen to John… — Robert Pattinson
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. — Charles Kingsley

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