"History is not a procession of illustrious people.……" — James A. Baldwin

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• It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like… — Kevin Bacon
• When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain… — Anthony Bourdain
• The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter. — Lenny Bruce
• Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be… — Madonna Ciccone
• It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this… — Edmond Jabes
• I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the… — John Cheever
• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and… — Simone Weil
• I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little… — Robert Breault
• When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining… — Clive James
• Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. — Doris Lessing
• He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us… — Arthur Miller
• Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject. — Robert Menzies

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