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  • Alfred Hitchcock We’re after the drawing-room type, the real ladies, who become whores once they’re in the bedroom.
    François Truffaut - Hitchcock/Truffaut
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Walt Whitman What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Helen Rowland What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Conrad What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Audre Lorde What do we want from each other
    after we have told our stories.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Carl Stokes What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Anne Rice What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Samuel Butler What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.''
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ernest Hemingway What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Allen Tate What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • W. M. Thackeray What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bruce Lee What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds body feel and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Carlyle What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barbara Castle What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Burton Richter What we're really after is trying to understand what's in the mind of God.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • Benny Andersson What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
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  • Bobby Rahal What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Buddha Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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