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  • Anthony Hope Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Philip Roth Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
    Source: The Dying Animal (2001)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bertrand Russell Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Harper Lee Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Henry Miller Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anatole France Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • George Orwell Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Capper Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Bob Dylan Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
    Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anne Dudley Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Doug Larson Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Carl Sandburg Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Value your words. Each one may be the last.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Billy Campbell Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Elizabeth Smart Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Truman Capote Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Boman Irani Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
    Source: March 1, 2003
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Very few women get asked to be in the swimsuit issue, and I'm really proud to be one of so many beautiful and empowering women.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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