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• Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

  Joe Greene

  Social Network, Social, Bites

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• It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Latin, Book

  "Evaristo Carriego" by Jorge Luis Borges, (Ch. 3), 1930.

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• Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

  Martin Amis

  Shopping, Family And Friends, Novelists

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.16, Random House

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• A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Children, Son, Branches

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics

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• Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

  Jeannette Walls

  Book, Reading, People

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• Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

  Janet Frame

  Morning, Mean, Hands

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.

  Allison Pearson

  Running, Country, Home

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• Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  Purpose, Computer, Software

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• And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if the long list of differences between us doesn't exist. We're dressed the same, we fight the same enemy, we win together ... It's as though for that moment I get to be her, the one who isn't covered in thick scars, and she gets to understand what it is to be me. It's different than hunting with Silas-he and I are partners, not part of the same heart.

  Jackson Pearce

  Team, Heart, Fighting

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• With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would give a comfortable living and sufficient leisure, in order to sacrifice to my gods [mathematical research]. For example, I hope to get the editting of the census, the birth and death lists in local districts, not as a job, but for my pleasure and satisfaction.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Loyalty, Jobs, Science

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• There are a lot of things money can't buy. Not one of them is on my son's list.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Son, My Son

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• After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

  Louise Brooks

  Names, Giving, Anecdotes

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• What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

  Edward Tufte

  Goal, Narrative, Bullets

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• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Song, Writing, Cynical

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

  Anne Rice

  New York, Looks, Literature

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• It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

  Rutger Hauer

  Cute, Kids, Later In Life

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• The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

  Howard Stern

  New York, Editors, Choices

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• It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

  Wim Wenders

  Independent, Cutting, Magazines

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Goal, Needs, Filmmaker

  "Mulroney and Amazing: A Conversation with Dermot Mulroney". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2002.

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• When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Dark, Firsts

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

  Victoria Osteen

  Happiness, Want, Good Things

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• I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

  Patrick Duffy

  Buddhist, Morning, Coffee

  "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.

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• I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.

  Morena Baccarin

  Girl, Buckets, Bucket List

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Buyers, Impulse

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.

  Whitney Cummings

  Girl, Dating, Guy

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