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Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
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R. A. Salvatore, Homeland
You can win a million battles but you can only lose one.
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Fred Allen
If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it.
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Joyce Carol Oates
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
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Seneca
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
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Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.
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Hans Johst (c. 1939)
When I hear the word culture I reach for my gun.
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Ellen Goodman
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.
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Anais Nin
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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G. K. Chesterton
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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Peter Ustinov
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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