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  • John Ruskin It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Quentin Crisp It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Gertrude Stein It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Angela Carter It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • Carl Andre It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Graham Greene It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Annie Dillard It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • William Shakespeare It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.
    All's well that ends well
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Salman Rushdie It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Hyman G. Rickover It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
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  • Albert Camus It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Emily Carr It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Atom Egoyan It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Mark Twain It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alan Cumming It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
    Alan Cumming
    Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, and activist (1965 - )
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