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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themsel

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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Im sure I dont know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldnt like to. – Oscar Wilde

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. – Oscar Wilde

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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). – Walt Whitman

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What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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If you dont pay attention and if your imagination isnt pretty much engaged, youre going to miss things and youre going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be. – Bruce Greenwood

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There can be no proof that Blakes lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so. – John Drinkwater

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