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Lisi Harrison
"Did I invite you to my barbecue?
...Then why are you all up in my grill?"
— Lisi Harrison (The Clique)
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"I need an Advil, I'm giving myself a headache."
— Claire Rivkin
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Wendell Berry
"What I stand for is what I stand on."
— Wendell Berry
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Honoré de Balzac
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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— Honoré de Balzac
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"Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage."
— Elizabeth Zimmermann (Knitting Without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-to-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes)
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Theodore Roosevelt
"" When your at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on"
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— Theodore Roosevelt
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Mervyn Peake
"I am clever enough to know that I am clever."
— Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)
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T.S. Eliot
"We know so much more than the ancients. Yes; and they are exactly what we know."
— T.S. Eliot
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"Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours.




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— W. Ian Thomas
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Brian Celio
"I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever."
— Brian Celio
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Mark Haddon
"Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new."
— Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time)
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Paulo Coelho
"أنا
من الأشخاص الذين يظن الجميع أنهم يملكون الأجابات عن كل شئ . والسبب أنه بقدر ما
نلوذ بالصمت , نبدو أذكياء فى نظر الاخرين"
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)
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Stephen Leacock
"Most people can tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.
- from my favorite quotes"
— Stephen Leacock
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Oscar Wilde
"When both the speaker and the audience are confused, the speech has been profound."
— Oscar Wilde
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Bertrand Russell
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

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— Bertrand Russell
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"If we could sleep away our troubles, we'd all be narcoleptic."
— Sidney Greenslate
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