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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a litera

All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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Knowledge
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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Writing
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In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. – Ethan Hawke

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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the males superiority. – Simone de Beauvoir

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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. – Karl Marx

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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. – Joseph Ratzinger

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Random Quotes

Im not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. Ive always been a freak. So Ive been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. Im one of those people. – John Lennon

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Change

My New Years resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy. – James Lafferty

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Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. – Author Unknown

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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. – Jean Kerr, “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall,” The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958

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