Quotes with truth-and-a-half

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  • Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • John Ruskin A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Cyril Connolly A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bruno Mars A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in the ring with me because he was one of those guys that was on top and saw a huge threat in Brock Lesnar at the time - that's 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Omar Khayyam A hair divides what is false and true.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Juvenal A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • John Updike A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Edward Gibbon A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • A. P. Herbert A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Ian Fleming A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
    Ian Fleming
    British author and journalist (1908 - 1964)
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  • Ovid A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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