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Philip Roth quote: "Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a..."

Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy tillthey die!

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If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will... Herman Hesse
Richard P. Feynman quote: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Richard P. Feynman
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. Bruce Jay Friedman
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They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly. Sarah McLachlan
We are so afraid of the idea of having to di? that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our tur? Jose Saramago
I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. Elie Wiesel
Willie Nelson quote: "Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to..."
Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless. Willie Nelson
Albert Einstein quote: "An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Albert Einstein
Kenneth Branagh quote: "My definition of success is control."
My definition of success is control. Kenneth Branagh
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important. Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Selma Blair quote: "I was a smoker for about 20 years."
I was a smoker for about 20 years. Selma Blair
Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. Lu Xun
Ray Brown quote: "People are trading distance for dollars."
People are trading distance for dollars. Ray Brown
A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on teh ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting. Joyce Carol Oates
Tom Ford quote: "When you find somebody good, keep them in your life."
When you find somebody good, keep them in your life. Tom Ford