H. L. Mencken Quotes
At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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You get a new year, you get a new start, you get a new opportunity.
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Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.
