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Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not… — Moshe Dayan
I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known… — Lyle Lovett
A single word often betrays a great design. — Jean Racine
Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't. — Robert Wyatt
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of… — Sakya Pandita
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and… — Sigmund Freud
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight… — Joe Baca
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that… — Sherwood Anderson
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. — Rudyard Kipling
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat… — E. M. Forster
I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good… — Anton Chekhov
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day. — Jay McInerney
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert
When you have something good... When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks… — Eric Thomas
My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, "pick… — Joan Rivers
I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women... This social revolution of feminism in the '70s really achieved so… — Katy Perry
It's strange, somebody asked for my autograph the other day. Because I finished school and I'm not really doing anything at the moment, I was… — Robert Pattinson
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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