"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say."

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"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say."

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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."

James Dickey, American Novelist

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"Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water."

Fernand Leger, French Artist

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"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."

Robert Fulghum, American Author

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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."

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"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I fought fire with oil."

Dalton Trumbo, American Novelist

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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

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"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

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"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."

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"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."

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"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated."

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"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."

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"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice."

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"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"

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"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."

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