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12663 quotesI have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Knowledge
Robert Benchley
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Travel and Tourism
Robert Benchley
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Writers and Writing
Robert Benchley
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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Writers and Writing
Robert Benchley
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Quotations
Robert Benchley
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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
Skepticism
Morris Bender
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books - Reading
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Honesty
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Beauty and grace command the world.
Grace
Park Benjamin
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Debate
Walter Benjamin
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Literary Criticism
Walter Benjamin
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Procreation
Walter Benjamin
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Public Opinion
Walter Benjamin
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Absence
Walter Benjamin
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Photography
Walter Benjamin
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Facts
Walter Benjamin
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Politicians and Politics
Tony Benn
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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Politicians and Politics
Tony Benn
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Adversity
Arnold Bennet
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Books - Classics
Alan Bennett
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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Change
Arnold Bennett
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Effort
Arnold Bennett
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Cleverness
Arnold Bennett
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Censorship
Arnold Bennett
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Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
Facts
James Gordon Bennett
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun