Category: writer
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We should perceive that man’s period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
H. P. Lovecraft
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Voltaire
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It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
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Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.
Alice Walker
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen
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Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.’
Robert Byrne