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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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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. – John Cheever

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Perfection
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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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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana

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Society

One of the most destructive things thats happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together – which can lead to nightmares of social collapse. – Alexander McCall Smith

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Society

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde

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Society

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we cant meet the demands of being a modern society. – Ahmet Necdet Sezner

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Society

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Let me ask you something, what is not art? – Author Unknown

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Art

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You cant invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Hezbollahs contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth. – Tom Lantos

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Morning

I didnt go to high school, so I dont have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school. – Josh Hutcherson

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Experience