Ben Yagoda Quotes
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Ben Yagoda
Quotes to Explore
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
Dan Fogelberg
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
Ian Somerhalder
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou
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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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At Oklahoma State, I get a letter from the Cowboys. I'm so excited. "Hey, watching your progress as a football player.” All this stuff, you know. I'm so proud, showing it to everybody. A guy named Jeff Edwards, who was from Midland, who came up there on a scholarship, but he had one leg shorter than the other, and it got to bothering him, so they made him a trainer. He got the same letter. So that burst my bubble.
Walt Garrison
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A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
Christine de Pizan
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It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
Merle Haggard
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To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
George Eliot
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Ben Yagoda