Category: writer
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The ‘New York Honk,’ as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile… and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.
Tom Wolfe
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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
Anais Nin
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
James Baldwin
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson
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When America does what’s right, it’s such a light on this planet.
Marianne Williamson