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  • Paul Auster Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Black Hawk Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
    The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
    Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting (2006) 12
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
    A preface to Paradise Lost
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Aesop Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Bill Hader Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Heywood Broun Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Eugène Delacroix Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Andy Warhol Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Bill Dedman Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brigitte Bardot Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bud Grant First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George F. Will Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • George F. Will Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Butch Trucks For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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