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Quote by John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck

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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. – John Steinbeck

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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck

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Ive always felt, in all my books, that theres a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence – providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. – Studs Terkel

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. – Giacomo Casanova

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I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost. – John O. Brennan

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I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish Ill know how it turned out. – Nora Ephron

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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. – Marquis De Sade

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And of course I didnt make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money. – Demetri Martin

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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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