"I was starting to realize the extent of……" — Frank Portman
"I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie."
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11 Quotes by Frank Portman
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It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're…
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Sam Hellerman is a genius!
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Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.
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D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.
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Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and…
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High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.
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Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to…
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Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.
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Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of…
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There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to…
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm…
— Albert Camus
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,…
— Roger Angell
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
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Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and…
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
— Jean Cocteau
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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