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Rebecca West

"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."

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"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

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"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

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"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

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"I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway."

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Amber Hurdle

"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."

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"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."

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Amber Hurdle

"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

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Amber Hurdle

"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
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"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
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"I write books to find out about things."
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"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."
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"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
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"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
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"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."
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"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
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