Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you do not owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes. ~John Mackey
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money. ~Joe Jamail
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Embrace your dorkdom or rail against it. The choice is yours. ~Brendan Fraser
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It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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