Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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God helps those who help themselves. ~English Proverb
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LIFE equals Live In Full Effect! ~Joseph Simmons
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~Japanese Proverb
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanses Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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Death closes all doors. ~English Proverb
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The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. ~Portuguese Proverb
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In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~English Proverb
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom. ~Don Henley
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
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One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
#quotes #chic-murray #humor

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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