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  • #1
    Harry Truman
    “He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag”
    Harry Truman
    tags: humor

  • #2
    Daniel Webster
    “There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.”
    Daniel Webster
    tags: truth

  • #3
    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    Sid Ziff

  • #4
    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    “If I didn't care for fun and such,
    I'd probably amount to much.
    But I shall stay the way I am,
    Because I do not give a damn.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #11
    Dorothy Parker
    “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #12
    Dorothy Parker
    “And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #13
    Dorothy Parker
    “There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #14
    Dorothy Parker
    “She can sit up and beg, and
    she can give her paw —
    I don't say she will, but she can.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #15
    Dorothy Parker
    “They say of me, and so they should,
    It's doubtful if I come to good.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #16
    John Jakes
    “Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”
    John Jakes

  • #17
    John Jakes
    “We are all dying of life.”
    John Jakes, North and South

  • #18
    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    Markus Herz

  • #19
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Alan             Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    Alan Moore

  • #23
    Vikram Seth
    “God save us from people who mean well.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy



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