Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Boris Pasternak One day Lara went out and did not come back.... She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was afterwards mislaid.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 15
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • James Fenton One does not become a guru by accident.
    James Fenton
    English poet, journalist and literary (1949 - )
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  • George Orwell One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Karl Menninger One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
    Karl Menninger
    American psychiatrist ( - 1990)
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  • Gertrude Stein One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • E. M. Cioran One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Charlotte Brontë One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Cesare Pavese One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Paul Klee One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand One does not learn how to die by killing others.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Winston Churchill One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jane Austen One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Anish Kapoor One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Brendan Behan One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Sigmund Freud One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Jane Austen One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Bill Rancic One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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