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If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked--which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it. Jean Genet
Formerly, when I was told to consider him wise, I kept trying to, and thought I was stupid myself because I was unable to perceive his wisdom; but as soon as I said to myself, he's stupid (only in a whisper of course), it all became quite clear! Don't you think so?' 'How malicious you are to-day!' 'Not at all. I have no choice. One of us is stupid, and you know it's impossible to say so of oneself. Leo Tolstoy
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't William Shakespeare
John F. Kennedy quote: "Ask not what your country has done for you, ask what you have..."
Ask not what your country has done for you, ask what you have done for your country John F. Kennedy
Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the original sin of the mind and have not use for the slogans, the unqualified assertion and sweeping generalization which are the propagandists stock in the trade. Aldous Huxley
It was just that he was fun in such an exhausting way because, being in advertising, he always wanted you to know how much fun he was having and where he had got his jacket from. Douglas Adams
Jerry Seinfeld quote: "I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other..."
I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings Jerry Seinfeld
Katherine Mansfield quote: "You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to..."
You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul. Katherine Mansfield
Bill Bryson quote: "99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no..."
99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us. Bill Bryson
Penelope Lively quote: "And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the..."
And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it Penelope Lively
The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you'll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it's the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever. Thomas Harris
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman’s making onto a foreign land. Ye’ll wake more than the dogs. Cormac McCarthy
Dean Koontz quote: "If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't..."
If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations. Dean Koontz
Paul Newman quote: "On considering adultery - Why go out for hamburger when I can..."
On considering adultery - Why go out for hamburger when I can have steak at home? Paul Newman
What do we mean - it is a common term of praise - when we say that a book is "original"? Not, usually, that the writer has invented something without precedent, but that she has made us "perceive" what we already, in a conceptual sense, "know", by deviating from the conventional, habitual ways of representing reality. Defamiliarization, in short, is another word for "originality". I shall have recourse to it again in these glances at the art of fiction. David Lodge

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