E. Merrill Root Quotes
Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.
E. Merrill Root
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Salman Rushdie
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My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.
Paige Butcher
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She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.
Loretta Lynn
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America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.
Alex Berenson
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Every country wants to protect its athletes because it's ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the government because of national pride.
Bryan Fogel
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Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.
Aubrey Plaza
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
Emile Zola
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
William Prescott
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Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me.
Cat Zingano
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It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.
Albert Einstein
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If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.
William Strunk, Jr.
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Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.
E. Merrill Root
