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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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What a good thing Adam had — when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. – Mark Twain, 1867

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Mr. [Thomas] Gray the poet has often observed to me that if a man were to form a Book of what he had seen and heard himself it must in whatever hands prove a most useful and entertaining one. – Horace Walpole, quoted in Walpoliana, 1800

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Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. – Attributed to Richard Kemph

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I had continued jotting down good lines—once the eyes and ears are awakened to the possibilities they can’t be put back to sleep… – Robert Byrne, The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,

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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouvers Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas. – Barbara Amiel

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We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldnt give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who dont have that problem because theyre not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity. – Chris Noth

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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship. – Yulia Tymoshenko

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