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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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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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Beauty
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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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The human races prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. – Peter Medawar

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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. – Luc de Clapiers

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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats. – Ian Somerhalder

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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure. – Yiddish Proverb

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, Dont you want to have a normal job and a normal family? I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. – Jennifer Aniston

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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. – Benjamin Banneker

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