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Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is..."
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Henry Miller quote: "I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans."
I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans. Henry Miller
Steven Wright quote: "You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should..."
You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament. Steven Wright
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins. Orson Scott Card
You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world?...More than people who think that if you're bisexual it means you'll fuck absolutely anyone (especially them)? Alan Cumming
L. M. Montgomery quote: "It was three o'clock in the morning? the wisest and most..."
It was three o'clock in the morning? the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free. L. M. Montgomery
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all. Alan Moore
The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall? Frank Zappa
On dope he sometimes thought that all the televisions on Calchalk Street were softly cackling about Richard Tull: news flashes about his most recent failures, panel discussions about his obscurity, his neglect. Martin Amis
Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: "Shall we go straight in? Kingsley Amis
Albert Einstein quote: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious...."
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. Albert Einstein
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe neet not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. Rebecca West
The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects. Ann Patchett
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning. Dean Koontz
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have..."
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. Benjamin Disraeli

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