The world is round… Ivy Baker Priest
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
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A smiling face is… Latvian Proverb
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb
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No degree of… Harold Rosenberg
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
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Humor is the first… Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
English novelist (1882 - 1941)
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It is folly for an… Joseph Addison
It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Joseph Addison
English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)
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Facts do not cease… Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
Aldous Huxley
English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)
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Nothing, of course,… Lillian Hellman
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, 1969
US dramatist (1905 - 1984)
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We are indeed much… Adelle Davis
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
Adelle Davis
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It is not necessary… Pierre Beaumarchais
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Beaumarchais
French businessman & comic dramatist (1732 - 1799)
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Different taste in… George Eliot
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
English novelist (1819 - 1880)
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Creative power, is… Thomas Troward
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
Thomas Troward
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We seem to have a… Alfred Hitchcock
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
Alfred Hitchcock
British movie director (1899 - 1980)
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A little inaccuracy… Saki
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
Saki, “The Square Egg”, 1924
British (Burman-born) short story author (1870 - 1916)
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Promises that you… Francis Marion
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
Francis Marion
US army officer in American Revolution (1732 - 1795)
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Appreciation is a… Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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One of the most… Jean Kerr
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
Jean Kerr
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Thoughts give birth… Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
German (Swiss-born) alchemist & physician (1493 - 1541)
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It is not the… Sir Edmund Hillary
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
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It is only the… Marie De Vichy-Chaconne
It is only the first step that is difficult.
Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
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I consider being… Samuel Butler
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Samuel Butler
English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)
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Americans adore me… George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
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I thought I told… Tallulah Bankhead
I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead, on seeing a former lover for the first time in years
US movie actress (1903 - 1968)
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Because women live… Ashley Montagu
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
Ashley Montagu
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The beginning of… Frank Herbert
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
US science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986)
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Think of all the… Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945)
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A handful of… Dutch Proverb
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb
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The eleventh… Berta Buxton
The eleventh commandment — Thou shalt not be found out — is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.
Berta Buxton
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Once a woman has… Marlene Dietrich
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
German movie actress (1901 - 1992)
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First, I do not sit… Robert Cecil Day Lewis
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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Happiness in… Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)
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Thus, in a real… Katherine Paterson
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
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Anything you fully… Natalie Goldberg
Anything you fully do is an alone journey.
Natalie Goldberg
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I stopped believing… Shirley Temple Black
I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple Black
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Two paradoxes are… Edward Teller
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller
US (Hungarian-born) physicist (1908 - 2003)
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Never explain–your… Elbert Hubbard
Never explain–your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)
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But did thee feel… Ernest Hemingway
But did thee feel the earth move?
Ernest Hemingway
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)
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The scornful… George Eliot
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
English novelist (1819 - 1880)
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Formerly, when… Thomas Szasz
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) “Science and Scientism”
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I refuse to believe… Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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People call me a… Rebecca West
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)
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What can you say… Irv Kupcinet
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
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Courage is grace… Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)
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I need no warrant… Ayn Rand
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)
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I am at two with… Woody Allen
I am at two with nature.
Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )
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I have too many… Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn Monroe
US actress (1926 - 1962)
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It is better to be… Brigitte Bardot
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Brigitte Bardot
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Ambition is a poor… Edgar Bergen
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)
US comedian & ventriloquist (1903 - 1978)
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Some people are… Joseph Heller
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller
US novelist (1923 - )
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The sweat of hard… Maxine Hong Kingston
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976
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Thanksgiving is a… Ayn Rand
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday…The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
Ayn Rand
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)
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