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• Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

  John Updike

  Littles, Fame, Famous Writers

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• Man is the dwarf of himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Mankind, Dwarfs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America

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• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.

  Jedediah Bila

  White, People, Snow

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• The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Together, Causes

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• We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster.

  Demetri Martin

  Toss, Faster, Ifs

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• Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

  Mason Cooley

  Self, What If, Sound

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• We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.

  Terence McKenna

  Humble, Years, Energy

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• For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Real, Book

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• I believe that every paper in the country should have one headline that when you read it, you laugh so hard you can't stand it. It has to be that way. What about a headline like this: 'Hippo Eats Dwarf'? How good is that? You read that headline, and you immediately close the paper and say, 'Wow, it's gonna be a great day.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Believe, Should Have

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• You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Dwarfs, Ifs

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• It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Real, Believe, Choices

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• We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• When I lie down to love,
  old dwarf heart shakes her head.
  Like an imbecile she was born old.

  Anne Sexton

  Lying, Heart, Age

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Trying, Giants, Equal

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• Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Cunning, Dwarfs

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• As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Long, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

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• We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

  Alan Stern

  Science, Everyday, Pluto

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• When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Moving, Writing, Army

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• The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Giants, Shoulders, Ability

  The Friend vol. 2 "On the Principles of Political Knowledge" (1818)

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• The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Men, Miracle

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.196, Penguin

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• What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Rights, Giants

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

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• Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mountain, Giants, Wells

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• Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Somewhere Else, Giants, Olympus

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• Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Giants, Dwarfs

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• I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

  Michael Ian Black

  Character, Warrior, Opportunity

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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