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Baltasar Gracian quote: "Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

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Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature. Arundhati Roy
Samuel Butler quote: "Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. Samuel Butler
This isn't what I expected when I found out you were sleeping in the house."What did you expect?"I expected you'd come over here because you couldn't wait an extra minute to have fabulous, mind-blowing sex with me. Charlaine Harris
O. Henry quote: "There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby..."
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. O. Henry
Tab Hunter quote: "Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the..."
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns. Tab Hunter
Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated. Chief Joseph
it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain. George Eliot
Henry Ford quote: "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place. Cormac McCarthy
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man. George G. Simpson
Manuel Puig quote: "I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome..."
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. Manuel Puig
Jim Bakker quote: "You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know."
You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know. Jim Bakker
Paulo Coelho quote: "Everything depends on which path you take."
Everything depends on which path you take. Paulo Coelho
Elton John quote: "I've got a great collection of photography."
I've got a great collection of photography. Elton John
Lady Gaga quote: "There really is no difference between the bully and the victim."
There really is no difference between the bully and the victim. Lady Gaga