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That young girl is one of the least benightedly
unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not
to be able to avoid meeting.
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-Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe, and Everything
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I am seldom interested in what he [Ezra Pound]
is saying, but only in the way he says it.
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-T.S. Eliot
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*You now, for instance,
with your fine physique--a god's, indeed--you have an empty noodle.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Book VII : Gardens and Firelight, 185-186
Robert Fitzgerald, trans., 1962
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*You thick-skinned menace
to all courtesy!
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. XVIII : Blows and a Queen's Beauty, 470
Robert Fitzgerald, trans., 1962
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but
the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not
good.
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-Samuel Johnson
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When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder
That such trivial people should muse and thunder
In such lovely language.
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-D.H. Lawrence
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He can compress the most words into the
smallest idea of any man I ever met.
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-Abraham Lincoln
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*Aunt Adeline was a tall,
capable woman to whom the word "horse" clung in conjunction with the words
"sense" and "face."
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-Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Two : Ellsworth M. Toohey, Ch. 9
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He thinks by infection, catching an opinion
like a cold.
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-John Ruskin
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You could throw her in the river and skim ugly
for two weeks.
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-Unknown
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The wheel's a-spinnin', but the hamster's dead.
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-Unknown
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