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Quotes by American Authors
"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."
"Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke."
"That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
"It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat."
"Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them."
"Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold."
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
"Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it."
"Whatever insults my State insults me."
"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."
"I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this."
"The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil."
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
"Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.You shall not deny the Stranger.They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be."
"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades."
"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
"Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life."
"I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union."
"My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair."
"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."
"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."
"I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal."
"I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth."
"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens."
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."
"Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better."
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