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Famous quotes by Writers

"No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches"
Milan Kundera, Writer
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"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory"
Milan Kundera, Writer
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"Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly, the same message is being given to the parents of tweens"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
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"Who has not served cannot command"
John Florio, Writer
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"A good husband makes a good wife"
John Florio, Writer
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"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
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"I became a writer in spite of my environments"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
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"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
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"I have not been a success, and probably never will be"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
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"Happiness is the longing for repetition"
Milan Kundera, Writer
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"Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries"
Milan Kundera, Writer
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"Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other"
Milan Kundera, Writer
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"When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"I am just an ordinary Catholic"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
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"Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born"
John Florio, Writer
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"Patience is the best medicine"
John Florio, Writer
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"Night is the mother of thoughts"
John Florio, Writer
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"Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought"
Milan Kundera, Writer
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