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Practically Quotes by Paul Theroux
- A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.
- Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my… — Lauren Bacall
- Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and… — Abraham Lincoln
- The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same… — James A. Baldwin
- I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men. — Roberto Cavalli
- I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be… — Kelly Clarkson
- I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more… — Eleanor Roosevelt
- How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they… — Charles Studd