"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book."

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"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book."

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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."

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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

Beth Henley, American Playwright

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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."

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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

Lee Van Cleef, American Actor

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"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth."

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"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book."

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"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."

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"I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me."

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"Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor."

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"My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong."

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