Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
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The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.
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God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
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Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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I don't know what to say. Maybe the next game we do the same thing. Maybe we'll turn it on in the second half. Everybody has to function at the same time.
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I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.
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I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
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It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.