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I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.
Christa Wolf
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Simone de Beauvoir
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And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.
Randall Jarrell
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Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.
Laura Schlessinger
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
Oscar Wilde
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Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
Michael Pollan
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For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup For Christ, Gethsemane.
Don Marquis
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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.
Ernest Hemingway
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The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion.
Anthony Loyd
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I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love A Walk in the Woods, about the Appalachian Trail, but his most amazing book is A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Dave Barry
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That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive - books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.
Anthony Lane
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Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same age, there are nonetheless changes afoot. Harry's voice, like that of his best friend, Ron (Rupert Grint), sounds like the mating cry of an oboe, and, worse still, the two cease to be best friends.
Anthony Lane
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Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.
Anthony Lane
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Still, there remains so much to relish and remember.
Anthony Lane
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There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.
Anthony Lane
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No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
Anthony Lane
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I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.
Anthony Lane
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If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
Matt Haig
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Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
Diane Sawyer
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The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.
Mark Levin
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Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.
George Will
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Be glad that you're greedy the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says fossil fuels are the energy of the past. We have more oil than we need. We'll never run out of it. It's all we've got.
Rush Limbaugh
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Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.
Margaret Fuller
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