"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."

Elizabeth Wurtzel, American Writer

Nothing, Television

"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."

Garth Ennis, Irish Writer

Nothing, Will

"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"

Jean Racine, French Dramatist

Nothing,

"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."

Jean Racine, French Dramatist

Nothing, Now

"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."

Arthur Balfour, British Statesman

Nothing,

"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Nothing, Poor, Promise

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."

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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

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"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

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"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite."

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"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."

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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."

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"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."

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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."

"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."

"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."

"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"

"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."

"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."

"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."

"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."

"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."

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"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."

"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."

"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."

"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite."

"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."

"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."

"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."