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I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

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Lawrence FerlinghettiWild Dreams of a New Beginning

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-fiv...

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He who hesitates is a damned fool.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the sam...

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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

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Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives t...

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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Do you hate people?”“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in wan...

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Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

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Chinua AchebeAnthills of the Savannah

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

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John Stuart MillInaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews