William Jenkyn Quotes
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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Well, June is, uh, National Dairy Month, and I'll be milking Deirdre later... Ain't that right baby.
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It's hard to believe that unscrupulous people would take advantage of the public's generosity at times like these, but it does happen,
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I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
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Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
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You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
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There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
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I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.
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There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.
