Quotes with half-there

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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Carrie Vaughn All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.
    Carrie Vaughn
    American writer (1973 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Richard Dawkins Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Arthur Winter Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.
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  • Barry Humphries Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen* never let any of them live rent-free in his brain.
    My Life as Me: A Memoir
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Ovid Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Beth Behrs Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.
    Beth Behrs
    American actress and writer (1985 - )
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  • Mary Caroline Richards Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Nicholas Butler America is the best half-educated country in the world.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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  • Philip James Bailey America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Ernest Dimnet Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Alan Dundes Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Brigitte Bardot Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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