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- If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help…
- When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are…
- In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of…
- Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to…
- Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
- I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble…
- A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
- In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like…
- No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
- No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
- He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all…
- But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just…
- Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
- The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the…
- No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
- I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and…
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of…
- If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our…
- We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us -…
- The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time…
- Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried…
- Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and…
- I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.
- Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with…
- Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
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- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong