"I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it."
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"Temptation to behave is terrible."
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"CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there."
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"I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative."
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"My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are."
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"What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground."
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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
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"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."
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"Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature."
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"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
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"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
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"It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written."
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"Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature."
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"The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly."
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"In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command."
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"When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams."
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"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge."
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"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
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"The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it."
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"All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world."
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