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  • Wallace Stevens All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • C. S. Lewis All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Buddy Rich Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bob Beauprez Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Brad Stone Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Bobcat Goldthwaite America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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  • Aldous Huxley Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Peter Ackroyd And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
    First Light (1996) 50
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Peter de Vries Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?''
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Truman Capote Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • James Baldwin Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Betty Bender Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
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  • André Gide Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Bruce Barton As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bill Moyers As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Robert Benchley As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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