Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~Latin Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
#quotes #richard-ford #poverty #floods #new-orleans

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am too pure for you or anyone. ~Sylvia Plath
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape. ~Angus Wilson
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ~Ben Nelson
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They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst. ~Scottish Proverb
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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If the stock goes down we want to buy more. ~Walter Schloss
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
#quotes #barbara-cartland #women

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
#quotes #c-s-lewis #family #eating

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. ~Chinese Proverb
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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