William Pickens Quotes
An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.
William Pickens
Quotes to Explore
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
Yair Lapid
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
Famke Janssen
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I live and die by puns.
Feist
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
Tanya Tucker
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
Pat Brown
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
Ramana Maharshi
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
Ellen Willis
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They could find something wrong with every car if they took it apart for a whole day at the R&D center.
Kevin Harvick
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For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.
Carolyn Parkhurst
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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
Virginia Woolf
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An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.
William Pickens
