Quotes 1021 till 1038 of 1038.
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You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
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[When told that he was making more than the president of the United States Herbert Hoover in 1930:] I had a better year than he did.
Source: Boston Globe, Will Rogers Dispatch by Will Rogers, January 9, 1930 -
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
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I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals.
Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal (2009) inl. -
I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
Source: Epigrams (1911) p.353 -
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.
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Revelation: A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Telephone. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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