Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
Dallas Roberts
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
Yahoo Serious
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
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Men wanna be alone, but we don't wanna be by ourselves.
Patrice O'Neal
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
Barbara Kingsolver
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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
George Hickenlooper
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When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here?
Tionne Watkins
TLC
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What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.
Buddy Wakefield
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I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
Jonathan Swift
