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Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
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The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.
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Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.
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I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
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The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
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The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.
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I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
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Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
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Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in…
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Is death that which gives meaning to life?
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The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
— Lewis Mumford
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Iwill always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
— Tammy Bruce
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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from…
— Mark Twain
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Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness…
— Albert Meltzer
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I…
— Donald Barthelme
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The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism…
— Leo Tolstoy
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