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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — G. M. Trevelyan
The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate. — Fred Upton
If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong. — Len Wein
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and… — P.G. Wodehouse
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped… — James Wolcott
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable… — Douglas Rushkoff
I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it. — Henri Matisse
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives… — John Irving
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then… — Neil Gaiman
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.… — Paulo Coelho
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction in terms to say that… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to… — Hermann Hesse
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being… — James Joyce
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of… — Thomas Pynchon
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes… — Michel Faber
He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it… — C.S. Lewis
You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether… — Jane Roberts
Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be… — Jess Walter
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. — Daniel Handler
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from… — Carl Jung
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent… — Terry Eagleton
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might… — Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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