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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history o

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

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Theres an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. – Doris Lessing

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. – Doris Lessing

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best
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing

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Its very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, youve got it half-made. I mean intellectually. – V. S. Naipaul

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History

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. – Howard Nemerov

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History

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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History

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour its probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. – P. J. ORourke

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History

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To think is to practice brain chemistry. – Deepak Chopra

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If movement was a language, skipping would be the natural word for “bliss.” – Theresa “Heartdancer” Carey, courtesy of iSkip.com

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Work is the price which is paid for reputation. – Baltasar Gracian

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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. – Carl Clinton Van Doren

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