"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."

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"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."

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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

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"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

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