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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'"

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"I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on."

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Graham Taylor Football Manager
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"I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day."

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"Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction."

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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently."

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Calvin Cheng Businessman
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"Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?"

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other."

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"People are mad a Donald Trump for allegedly making a joke about Megyn Kelly having her period. Trump said, 'Trust me, I know what goes on down there, because I'm a huge douche.'"

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