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“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton
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"It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." - Robert Southey
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“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” — Cicero
I'd like to reminisce a bit and would change it to reflect the 50s, 60s, and 70s:
“Times are good. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” — Memphis Trace
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He could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents.
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain
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“There was nothing about her story remarkable other than that it was her life.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
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"If you want justice, go to a whorehouse. If you wanna get fucked, go to court."
William Diehl
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"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
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"Let it at the very least be said, if it ever comes to be said, if there is ever anyone in some remote future interested to know the way we lived, that in the farthest outpost of the Empire of light there existed one man who in his heart was not a barbarian." - J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians.
