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1914 quotesA person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Books - Reading
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
Caution
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Creation is a drug I can't do without.
Creativity
Cecil B. De Mille
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What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
Editing and Editors
Cecil B. De Mille
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Regret
Arthur Miller
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Alienation
Arthur Miller
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Growth
Henry Miller
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Books - Classics
Henry Miller
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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
Food and Eating
Henry Miller
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Writers and Writing
Olin Miller
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The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
Questions
Steve Miller
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I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Coward and Cowardice
Spike Milligan
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He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
Self-control
John Milton
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With thee conversing I forget all time.
Conversation
John Milton
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The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
Committees and Meetings
Lord Milverton
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We are digging our graves with our teeth.
Food and Eating
Thomas Moffett
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People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Upper Class
Moliere
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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
Knowledge
Moliere
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.
Science and Scientists
C. E. Montague
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Death and Dying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Lies and Lying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
Misfortunes
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Age and Aging
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Critics and Criticism
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Life and Living
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun