Today's Quote

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We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily
into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as
the joke he resents.

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Be confident of this: He who began a good work in you will
continue to perform it until it's perfectly complete.

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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are
sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

--Anatole France

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Classic Quotes by Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) US writer

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

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Advice - when you want to hear what you are told it is great, but when you are given advice that you don't want to hear it can be at best deeply uncomfortable!

Try to be patient when you are given advice that you don't instantly agree with and don't snap. Advice that is the hardest to take can often be the best advice for you in the long run.

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Originally Posted by rorobush

Advice - when you want to hear what you are told it is great, but when you are given advice that you don't want to hear it can be at best deeply uncomfortable!

Try to be patient when you are given advice that you don't instantly agree with and don't snap. Advice that is the hardest to take can often be the best advice for you in the long run.

Great reply, appreciate that.

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"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."- Alice Kahn

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Classic Quotes by Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) US writer

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

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Congress - these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

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Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

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I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.