H. L. Mencken Quotes

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

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• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• I enjoy Saturday night racing.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
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• I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Information
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• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Small
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• Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
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• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
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• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Trust
  • Artist
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• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
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• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
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• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
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• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Wonder
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• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
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• What hope has any endeavor which is based on hate and fear?

  

  David Brin
  • Hope
  • Fear
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• You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • True
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• The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

  

  James Rollins
  • Up
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• Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.

  

  Edward Young
  • She
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• The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

  

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