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- Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
- Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left…
- A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so…
- It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was…
- Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and…
- You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense…
- England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
- A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a…
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as…
- But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on…
- [Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the…
- There is something about saying Ok and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into feeling that he has just pulled…
- It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent of wwriting, but I couldn't give up, because by the time, I was too…
- Next we come to the bronchial buster, or the man (it is usually a man) who, being in the throes of a terrific throat and…
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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
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash