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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Learning Libraries Wisdom Everywhere
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowing so many things that ain't so.

Trouble Folks Ignorance Knowing
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Evidence Intelligence Surprised Nothing
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The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

Man Tempted Dishonest
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It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

Art Superior Know
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True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Wisdom Experience Reflecton Ignorance
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I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

Heart broken Fun Someone
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Because obsession is the thing in us that makes us not everybody else.

Obsession Thing Makes Everybody
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Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Recognizing Power Diminish Own
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A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend

Vague Disclaimer Friend
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I'm not big on regret. It's not on my schedule

Big Regret Schedule
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War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.
War Business Death Life
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Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.

Faith God Humanity Proof
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All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Worthy work Author Art Kid
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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Write Strength Characters Afraid
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I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

Great Believer Families Blood
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Listening Imitation Sincerest Flattery
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Marriage Spiritual Communion Trash
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life

Granted Compliment Comfortable Life
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The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

World Judge Know
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Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

Powerful Woman Sensitive Issue
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If you change nothing, nothing changes.

You Change Nothing
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They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

Money Everything
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Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

Happiness Life's Invisible
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Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted? If it were not for language, could we lie?

Language Insrument Trusted Lie
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The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Worst Give Exchange Love
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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read

Read Apology Someone
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The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Ideal art Noblest Life Doubt
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

Reading Involuntarily Voice Soul
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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Society Picnic Individuals Enjoy
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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Food Poetry
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Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

Hating Spitting You
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Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Mind Imagines Eye See
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Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Writing Consequence Hunted Material
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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Advantage Writer Invisible Power
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There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

Nothing Ordinary Reality
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Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Writing Loneliness Privacy Freedom
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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Art Freedom Expression Ideal
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A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.

Job Who You
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Original Primary Gender Imitation
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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Possibility Luxury Crucial
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Masculine Feminine Roles Socially
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Gender Identity Expressions Results
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Love Feeling History Vision
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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Operate Power Domination
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Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

People Think Technology Old
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Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette

Freedom Rules Work Etiquette
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Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Etiquette Defenseless Rudeness World
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Hypocrisy Social Sin Virtue
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Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Society Exist Etiquette Century
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