Quote by Fran Lebowitz
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, a

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. – Fran Lebowitz

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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. – Fran Lebowitz

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Nature
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. – Fran Lebowitz

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Freedom
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. – Fran Lebowitz

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Death
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. – George Bernard Shaw

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. – Orison Swett Marden

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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones. – William Shakespeare

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist. – Edgar Allan Poe

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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Sir Walter Scott

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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. – Emil Zatopek

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There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. – Novalis

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