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• I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

  Robert Purvis

  Insult To Injury, Judging, Soil

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• Every setback has a major comeback.

  Russell Wilson

  Majors, Setback

  Russell Wilson @DangeRussWilson, twitter.com. February 2, 2015.

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• Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

  Lionel Blue

  Insult, Discrimination, Luther

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• To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Insult To Injury, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Coincidence, Consciousness, Infinite

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• I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.

  Lewis Carroll

  Thinking, Opinion

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Mean, Thinking, Millions

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• No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Long, Novel

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• When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Skills, Good Writers

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• I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

  John Millington Synge

  Reading, Giving, Kind

  Draft of a preface in "Notebook 16". "The Collected Works of J.M. Synge", Volume 1. Introduction, 1962.

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• I want to be a writer someday.

  Andrea Barber

  Want, Someday

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• I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Block, Writing, People

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• Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Country, Writing, Choices

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• Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Important, Society

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.286, Cambridge University Press

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• It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

  Alan King

  Father, Being A Father, Easy

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• There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Down And, Loses

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• I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

  Annie Lennox

  Looks, Incredibles, Satisfied

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Running, Volleyball

  "El Guerrouj digs deep for long-awaited gold" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2004.

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• If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

  Russell Lynes

  Laughing, Insult, Ifs

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• Insults are the business of the court.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Business, Insult, Court

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• To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

  Marilyn Manson

  Mean, Want, Standards

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• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Gentleman, Hard

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

  Alice Miller

  Infancy Is, Adults, Able

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• Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“ “She said she doesn’t want it,” said Simon. “Ha-ha.” “Ha-ha?” Jace looked incredulous. “That’s your comeback?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Want, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.542, Simon and Schuster

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• Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn’t expect that. “That’s it? That’s your witty comeback?” “Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.

  Ilona Andrews

  Witty, Heart, Littles

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.43, Penguin

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