"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."

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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."

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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

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"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse."

Bruce Cockburn, Canadian Musician

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"My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole."

Bernard Devoto, American Historian

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"I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it."

John Waters, American Director

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"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."

John H. Speke, British Explorer

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"I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

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"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."

Jacques Derrida, French Philosopher

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"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."

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"Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art."

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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."

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"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."

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"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."

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"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."

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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."

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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."

"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."

"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse."

"My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down."

"The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole."

"I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it."

"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."

"I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more."

"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."

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"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."

"Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art."

"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."

"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."

"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."

"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."

"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."

"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."

"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."

"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."