Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
Adam Draper
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
E. L. Doctorow
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
Walid Jumblatt
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
A. A. Milne
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If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
Jaron Lanier
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Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
Pam Brown
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Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.
T. C. Boyle
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith