Quotes with truth-and-a-half

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  • Arthur Godfrey He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Emily Dickinson He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • C. S. Lewis He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 19-20
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ford He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • James Joyce He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bille August He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Castle He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • John Lennon He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Norman Tebbit He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Mark Twain He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Fred A. Allen He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Douglas Adams He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Henry Wotton He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
    Henry Wotton
    English diplomat, politician and writer (1568 - 1639)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Jonathan Swift He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Charles Dickens He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ada Leverson He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.
    Tenterhooks (1912) Ch. vii
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Oscar Wilde He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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