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  • Marguerite Duras It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Bill Bennett It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Bob Woodward Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Alain Badiou Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • Alain Badiou Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • Ba Jin Looking at this immensely swollen face in front of him the doctor gently consoled the patient, Comrade, don't worry and you will recover. As a matter of fact, he was thinking quite the opposite, You will die. I can be of no more help.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • George Gurdjieff Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Henry Vaughan Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Caroline Knapp Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Beverley Nichols Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.
    Beverley Nichols
    English playwright, journalist and composer (1898 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Montgomery My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Bobby Moynihan My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Cary Grant My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Antonia Fraser My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Anne Tyler My stories are never quite good enough.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Anne Sexton Need is not quite belief.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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