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1625 Essayist Quotes

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

A man A bird To come The springtime
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

Never Fight fair A stranger Get out
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They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

Escape technology Stay away Have relationships Fellow humans
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Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Great drama Great questions But technique Imagine
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There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits.

Prodigious fear Seeking Loose spirits
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You don't realize how people can hate, they can hate so much they'll tear the world to pieces.

Don't realize How people Can hate So much
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Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

Fear Love Is difficult To explain
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Show them a stony heart and sink them with it

Show them Stony heart Sink them
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You want to live? You better figure out your life.

You want Live Figure out Your life
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I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. My whole bloody life, time after time after time.

Every time Reach out Something Pull back
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You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

Never do Any good Some trouble
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Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

Weeks passed A future A trouble Go away
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Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere.

Who believe That authority Challenge Threaten it
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Privilege Friendship Talk Nonsense
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Motto Contented Little Wishing
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What is reading, but silent conversation.

Reading Silent Conversation
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Pain Life Sharper Evidence
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
Love Lose Myself Men's
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

One success To spend Your life Own way
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Three ingredient Good life Learning Earning
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

High heels Invented A woman Been kissed
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Heavy hearts Clouds Best relieved Letting of
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You sell A man A book New life
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Real purpose Books The mind Own thinking
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Beauty Lonely mind Shadow fleeting Never plan
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

No mistaking Real book Like falling In love
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There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

A heaven This earth We inhabit We read
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A man Never made Woman angry A failure
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

The trouble With wedlock Enough wed Much lock
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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

No man Is lonely Eating spaghetti It requires
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

One rule Good talker Learn To listen
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Man's heart Secret nerve Answers The vibrations
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

You have To pretend A parade Really interested
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life Foreign language All men Mispronounce it
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It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Good thing Your mind Upside down Hour glass
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A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades.

A doctor Advertised My business The mind
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Living in Bookshop Warehouse Explosive
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Only the sinner has the right to preach.

The sinner The right To preach
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes Hardest To bear Never came
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Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Words A commodity Never Any slump
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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The enemies The future Nicest people
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That's what this country needs,more books.

Country needs More books
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Terrorism The tactic Demanding The impossible
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Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.

Chemotherapy Feel bad Feeling now Good thing
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I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

It's possible To have A sense Tragedy
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Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Million People die Every day Go sometimes
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Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

No god No afterlife Persuasive evidence Argument
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonizing death, but then be reborn to have an agonizing and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.

The people Who pray Agonizing death Be reborn
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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Religion Human Make up Our cultural
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I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Sometimes wish Suffering Good cause Risking
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