"Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions."
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"Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?"
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""Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.""
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"I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting."
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"If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone."
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"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."
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"Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know."
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"My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning.""
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"I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling"
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"The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words."
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"Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth."
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"Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language."
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"Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled."
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"He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving."
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"Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you."
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"It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind."
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"I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to."
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"Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does."
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"It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences."
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"The less said the better."
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