Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy."
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E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!"
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
Emile Zola
Novelist
"What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities."
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"The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times."
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"The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish."
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"When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish"
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"My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent."
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"Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been."
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"No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons."
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"I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish."
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"Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face."
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"My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish."
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"It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes."
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"I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself."
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"Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading."
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"The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away."
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"Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish."
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"I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic."
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"There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish."
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"We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time."
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