Elyn Saks Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare.
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I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can't keep up.
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I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
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Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
