Harlan Ellison
Author
"In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony."
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These Days
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Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
Denis Johnson
Author, Poet
"That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?"
Carnie Wilson
Singer
"We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be."
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"Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, 'I wish I had', or 'I'm glad I did.'"
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"It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well."
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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
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"Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out."
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"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
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"Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them."
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"The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community."
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"The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money."
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"It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one."
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"You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you."
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"I have a lot of dreams, and most of them come true these days."
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"If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you."
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"Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger."
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"Football these days isn't going forwards. It's going sidewards"
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"You know hearts these days are cheap."
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"I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days."
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"It is the painting that makes me so happy these days."
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"Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt."
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"Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days."
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"Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners."
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