"The result is ... that there's no room……" — Fritz Leiber

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• Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as… — John le Carre
• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme… — Jean de la Bruyere
• You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay… — Wallace Stegner
• In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their… — Thucydides
• She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she… — W. Somerset Maugham
• Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a… — Betty Friedan
• In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is… — Oswald Spengler
• Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was… — Thomas Harris
• Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt,… — Eric Fischl
• I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool.… — James Joyce
• But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to… — James Salter
• Rejoice in the prosperity of others. When you feel contemptuous, or even a twinge of jealousy, toward the accomplishments or… — Wayne Dyer

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