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I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?
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If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the…
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Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
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I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like…
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She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for…
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In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…
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A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
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My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
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We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
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In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
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You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
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Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
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Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary,…
— James J. Kilpatrick
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But words - words are not enough!
— Klaus Kinski
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It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons.…
— Richard Kadrey
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When you work with words, words are your work.
— Don Knotts
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Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people…
— Francis Chan
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Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.
— Lesley Howarth
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Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
— Sharon M. Draper
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I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than…
— Rickie Lee Jones
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Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value;…
— Zhuangzi
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This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have…
— Livy
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So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it…
— John Marsden
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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the…
— Francis Bacon
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