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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't. Malcolm X
Michael Crichton quote: "Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? ..."
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. Michael Crichton
INTO MY OWN One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who... Robert Frost
Bill Watterson quote: "Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I..."
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am? Bill Watterson
Ayn Rand quote: "We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for..."
We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we knew it then. Ayn Rand
I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define. Margaret Atwood
Jodi Picoult quote: "I know the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important..."
I know the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss. Jodi Picoult
Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. Andre Dubus
John Adams quote: "Liberty cannot be achieved without a general knowledge among..."
Liberty cannot be achieved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right and a desire to know. John Adams
There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude Thornton Wilder
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then. Haruki Murakami
I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests. James F. Cooper
Elie Wiesel quote: "Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They..."
Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going. Elie Wiesel
Put it on. And don't say a word. Put it on. The one that I prefer. Put it on. And stand before my eyes. Put it on. Please don't question why. Can you believe. Something so simple. Something so trivial. Makes me a happy man. Put it on. I can feel so much. Put it on. I don't need to touch. Put it on. Here before my eyes. Put it on. Because you realize. And you believe. Something so worthless. Serves a purpose. It makes me a happy man. Can't you understand. Say you believe. Just how easy. It is... Martin Gore
J. D. Salinger quote: "Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how..."
Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how much you demand from a thing, you little bastard. J. D. Salinger

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