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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I...
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be...
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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I don’t like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to...
Quote #11822
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They...
Quote #24391
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your...