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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don’t...
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot...
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil,...
Quote #664
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.
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Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of...
Quote #17866
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. – Notebook, 1898
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Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck — but, most of...
Quote #26348
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit...