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• The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Reading, Dust, Soul

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• The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Wish, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.226, Graphic Arts Books

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• I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Mistake, Typewriters, Teeth

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• The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.

  Stanislaw Lem

  War, Understanding, Enemy

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “Peace on Earth”, p.59, HMH

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• We do have, I'm sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries that is utterly opposed to our values, we're going to have to be a lot braver... in standing up for our Judaeo-Christian culture.

  Nigel Farage

  Christian, Country, Culture

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• If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.

  Eddie Izzard

  America, Gossip, Trying

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• Every year I write a tax advice column and I used to always make fun of that. One year, one of my favorite IRS commissioners, I think his name was Roscoe somebody, wrote that one of the most often-asked questions by taxpayers was, "How can I contribute more?" Well, I tell ya, ol' Roscoe's really been doing situps under parked cars again. I've heard a lot of people ask a lot of questions about taxes, but I never heard anybody say, "How can I, the ordinary person, send more money for no reason?"

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Elements, Weight

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• Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Want, Stuff, Newspapers

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• You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.

  Leslie Jamison

  Beautiful, Color, Jail

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.72, Granta Books

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• I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

  Laurie Notaro

  Writing, Arizona, Journalism

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• Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Advice, Next, Facts

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• Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies, and I am, after all, a compassionate man.

  Neal Boortz

  Men, Emotional, Too Much

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• Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.

  Leigh Newman

  Brother, Moving, Book

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• The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

  James Lee

  Song, Oil, Long

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• Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Clouds, Light

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• Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.

  John M. Tyler

  Nature, Science, Brain

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• Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Eye, Science, Diagnosis

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

  David Plotz

  New York, Writing, Demand

  Source: www.slate.com

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• А weekly column is really tough.

  David Plotz

  Tough

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.

  David Plotz

  Mean, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever.

  David Plotz

  Grateful, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• A column about errors will contain errors.

  Bill Gold

  Errors

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• Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

  Bernard Ingham

  Sports, Blood, Gossip

  1986 Speech, 5 Feb.

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• These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Powerful, Government, Oil

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