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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

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It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

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There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

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I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

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So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

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There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

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Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.

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Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

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And, again, I don't know where he [Osama Bin Laden] is. I — I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.

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You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

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I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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