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  • John Cheever A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Ben Folds A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Carly Craig A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Blake Anderson A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Billy Collins A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bob Dylan A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Cass McCombs A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Carl Reiner A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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  • Garrison Keillor A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Carole Bouquet A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers - and this is the basis of all human morality.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Mae West A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Leo Tolstoy A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • George Orwell A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Richard Burton A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Joseph Conrad A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Epictetus A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Don Marquis a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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