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John Cheever

"People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy."

John Cheever, American Writer
People, Confusion, Fiction, Morals
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"People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy."

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Amber Hurdle

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

Bill Maher, American Comedian
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Amber Hurdle

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

Bill Maher, American Comedian
People, Gay, Kids, Law
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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

Bill Maher, American Comedian
People, Hate, Tea
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Amber Hurdle

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist
People, Hope, Race, Will
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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist
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Amber Hurdle

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician
People, Answers
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Amber Hurdle

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician
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Amber Hurdle

"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."

Ovid, Roman Poet
People, Leisure
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Amber Hurdle

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist
People, Belief, Blind
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"Too late, the ordinary German realized that the violence which before had been directed against 'other' people could now equally land on him."

William Waller, English Soldier
People, Land, Now, Violence

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