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• Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Fall, Might, Dizzy

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• One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

  Joseph Campbell

  News, Today, Spirit

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.1, Anchor

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• Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Grows, Has Beens

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Writing, Library

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• Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

  Karl Kraus

  Marriage, Society, Unions

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.152, Syracuse University Press

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• Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Solitude, Would Be

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• Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.

  Iris Murdoch

  Christ

  Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.88, Penguin

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• I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

  Anne Stevenson

  Loyal, Austen, Schubert

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• The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

  Franz Kafka

  World

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Evil, Mediation

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Book, Reading

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• It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Righteous, Courses, Profitable

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• People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Mirrors, Self, People

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Respect, Selfish, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.416

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• Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

  John Dryden

  Slave

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 2, l. 285

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• The first is the law, the last prerogative.

  John Dryden

  Law, Lasts, Firsts

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• Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

  David Brin

  Past, Self, Civilization

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• But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

  David Brin

  Interesting, Challenges, Trying

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• True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Easy, Courtesy

  "Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men". Book by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451, 1887.

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• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Zero, Philosophy

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

  Mason Cooley

  Simple, People, Justice

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• Many gloat over their own troubles.

  Mason Cooley

  Trouble

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• Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

  Mason Cooley

  Mind, Body, Pleasure

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• Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

  Mason Cooley

  Imagination

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• Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

  Mason Cooley

  Consciousness, Reprieve

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