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Plutarch quote: "It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory..."
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch
H. L. Mencken quote: "The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us..."
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. H. L. Mencken
The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics. Harper Lee
I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years. A. J. Jacobs
As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you talk about political or social responsibility, you've amputated the best limbs you've got as an artist. David Cronenberg
W. H. Auden quote: "A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but..."
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. W. H. Auden
Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better. William Shakespeare
Ayn Rand quote: "Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of..."
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. Ayn Rand
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do. Andy Rooney
I remember him standing under a streetlamp. 'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I'll return to the original subject, agreed?' I certainly agreed. Jack Kerouac
if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly? then they need tosearch. Friedrich Nietzsche
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and..."
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. Henry David Thoreau
Mitch Albom quote: "You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be..."
You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose. Mitch Albom
As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash. Harper Lee
For equipment she had youth, curiosity, a steel strong frame...four hundred ninety-seven dollars; and a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace her steps, painfully. But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and Burgundy, crysoprase and porphyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. Edna Ferber

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