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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a…
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I scorn you, scurvy companion.
— William Shakespeare
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A very scurvy fellow.
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The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in…
— Karl Marx
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
— William Shakespeare
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I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
— Aisha Tyler
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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight…
— Art Donovan
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
— Ben Jonson
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He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague,…
— Salman Rushdie
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Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
— Lou Holtz
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Explorers tend to be the aggressive types - why else would they risk scurvy, mutiny and other bad things to go out…
— Seth Shostak
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