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A quotation from Alfred Hitchcock

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) English film director
Interview (1962-08) by François Truffaut

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Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out. Why he avoids making "slice of life"…
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Life is a shadowy, strange, and winding road on which we travel for a little way — a few short steps — just from the cradle, with its lullaby of love, to the low and quiet way-side inn, where all at last must sleep, and where the only salutation is — Good-night.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Essay (1881-11) “The Christian Religion,” “Part 2” North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 300

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Life is a shadowy, strange, and winding road on which we travel for a little way -- a few short steps -- just from the cradle, with its lullaby of love, to the low and quiet way-side inn, where all at last must sleep, and where the only salutation is…
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

Behind the politics of big talk and little action lies the simple fact that most of the big men who run this show want little government.

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1955-10-29), “The Crisis in Agriculture,” Democratic Rally, Duluth, Minnesota

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A quotation from Twain

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one may reason all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]

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A quotation from Kerry Greenwood

When pursued by a satyr, always make sure you are caught near the softest available moss.

Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
Phryne Fisher, Book 15, Death by Water, ch. 15 (2005)

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When pursued by a satyr, always make sure you are caught near the softest available moss. A quip Phryne recalls once making.
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Euripides - Bellerophon [Βελλεροφῶν], frag. 293 (c. 430 BC) [tr. Collard (1997)] | WIST Quotations

It is not worth living, when we see bad men unjustly honored.   [ου γαρ άξιον λεύσσειν φάος κακούς ορώντας εκδίκως τιμωμένους.] Nauck (TGF) frag. 293, Barnes frag. 129, Musgrave frag. 23. (Source (Greek)).
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Doyle, Arthur Conan - Story (1891-07), "A Scandal in Bohemia," ch. 1, The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1 | WIST Quotations

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.
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Civil Service Reform had two sides. There was, first, the effort to secure a more efficient administration of the public service, and, second, the even more important effort to withdraw the administrative offices of the Government from the domain of …
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Letter (1837-06-09) to John Sterling

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The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble. Regarding critics who think writing styles can or should be be easily changed.
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A quotation from Josh Billings

I dont kno which iz the biggest phool, the man who kan spend two hours bragging about himself, or the one who kan sit pashuntly and listen to him.
 
[I don’t know which is the biggest fool, the man who can spend two hours bragging about himself, or the one who can sit patiently and listen to him.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-04 (1876 ed.)

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A quotation from Ben Franklin

One to destroy, is Murder by the Law,
   And Gibbets keep the lifted Hand in Awe.
To murder Thousands, takes a specious Name,
   War’s glorious Art, and gives immortal Fame.
O great Alliance! O divine Renown!
   With Death and Pestilence to share the Crown!
When Men extol a wild Destroyer’s Name,
   Earth’s Builder and Preserver they blaspheme.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)

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One to destroy, is Murder by the Law, And Gibbets keep the lifted Hand in Awe. To murder Thousands, takes a specious Name, War’s glorious Art, and gives immortal Fame.
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A quotation from Jane Austen

We are of each an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all of the eclat of a proverb.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Pride and Prejudice, ch. 18 [Elizabeth] (1813)

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A quotation from Santayana

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-American poet and philosopher [Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruíz de Santayana y Borrás]
The Life of Reason, Vol. 2: Reason in Society, ch. 8 “Ideal Society” (1905)

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A quotation from Samuel Butler

The limits of vice and virtue are wretchedly ill-defined. Half the vices that the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
The Way of All Flesh, ch. 52 (Pryer) (1903)

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A quotation from Garry Wills

Politics demands a great capacity for self-deception, which rescues the politician from hypocrisy. He can normally manage to believe what he is saying for the time it takes him to say it. This gives him a certain sincerity even when he is saying opposite things to opposite people.

Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
Confessions of a Conservative, ch. 15 (1979)

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Wills, Garry - Confessions of a Conservative, ch. 15 (1979) | WIST Quotations

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Basil of Caesarea - "To the Rich [Ὁμιλία πρὸς τοὺς πλουτούντας]," sermon (c. 368) [tr. Schroeder (2009)] | WIST Quotations

You seem to have great possessions! How else can this be, but that you have preferred your own enjoyment to the consolation of the many? For the more you abound in wealth, the more you lack in love. [ἀλλὰ μὴν φαίνῃ ἔχων κτήματα πολλά.
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Lovecraft, H. P. - Letter (1936-08) to Catherine L. Moore | WIST Quotations

As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their yes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial …
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A quotation from Von Clausewitz

Courage is of two kinds: courage in the face of personal danger, and courage to accept responsibility, either before the tribunal of some outside power or before the court of one’s own conscience.
 
[Der Muth ist doppelter Art: einmal Muth gegen die persönliche Gefahr, und dann Muth gegen die Verantwortlichkeit, sei es vor drm Richterstuhl irgend einer äussern Macht, oder der innern, nämlich des Gewissens.]

Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) Prussian soldier, historian, military theorist
On War [Vom Kriege], Book 1, ch. 3 “On Military Genius [Der Kriegerische Genius],” (1.3) (1832) [tr. Howard & Paret (1976)]

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Courage is of two kinds: courage in the face of personal danger, and courage to accept responsibility, either before the tribunal of some outside power or before the court of one's own conscience.
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A quotation from Nora Ephron

When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Nora Ephron (1941-2012) American screenwriter, author, journalist, director
Essay (2006), “What I Wish I’d Known,” I Feel Bad About My Neck (2007)

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When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
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Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. - Essay (2004-08-06), "I Love You, Madame Librarian," In These Times Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 20 (2004-08-30) | WIST Quotations

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies …
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell

In national politics, where you are one of some twenty million voters, your influence is infinitesimal unless you are exceptional or occupy an exceptional position. You have, it is true, a twenty-millionth share in the government of others, but only a twenty-millionth share in the government of yourself. You are therefore much more conscious of being governed than of governing.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-23), “Control and Initiative: Their Respective Spheres,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 5, BBC Radio

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A quotation from James Howell

When thou dost hear a toul or knell,
   Then think upon thy passing-bel.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

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When thou dost hear a toul or knell, Then think upon thy passing-bel.
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More, Thomas - Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 "Discourses of Raphael Hythloday" (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)] | WIST Quotations

God has said, "Thou shalt not kill"; shall we kill so readily for the theft of a bit of small change? Perhaps it will be argued that God's law against killing does not apply where human laws allow it.
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A quotation from Baltasar Gracian

There is no weakness without its admirer, so be not discomfited because your ways displease some, for they will not fail to be pleasing to others: nor let their approval of them make you vain, for still others will condemn them.
 
[No hay defecto sin afecto, ni se ha de desconfiar porque no agraden las cosas a algunos, que no faltarán otros que las aprecien; ni aun el aplauso de estos le sea materia al desvanecimiento, que otros lo condenarán.]

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

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A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: Why does the universe always give you the sign after you do it?

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-06-09)

Calvin and Hobbes (1991-06-09)

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CALVIN: Why does the universe always give you the sign after you do it?
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

DENY, v.t. See Hurl Back The Allegation.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Deny,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1882-02-17)

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DENY, v.t. See Hurl Back The Allegation. Not collected in later books.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor - Column (1942-09), "If You Ask Me," Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 59 | WIST Quotations

Q. With what the Germans, Japanese and Italians are trying to do to the democracies of the world -- especially our United States -- do you really mean you would permit your children to number among their friends any Germans, Japanese or Italians? A.
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Bible, Vol. 1. Old Testament - Book 22. Song of Songs (of Solomon; Canticles) 5:10ff, Poem 4 (Song (Cant) 5:10-16) [tr. NJB (1985)] | WIST Quotations

BELOVED: My love is fresh and ruddy, to be known among ten thousand. His head is golden, purest gold, his locks are palm fronds and black as the raven.
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A quotation from Shakespeare

ISABELLA:                   Truth is truth
   To the very end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Measure for Measure, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 51ff (5.1.51-52) (1604)

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ISABELLA:Truth is truth To the very end of reckoning.
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A quotation from Audre Lorde

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) American writer, feminist, civil rights activist
Essay (1983-10), “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger,” Essence Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 6

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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. From the expanded version collected in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984).
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A quotation from Lord Chesterfield

An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Letter (1758-01-15) to Philip Stanhope (his son), No. 298 (enclosed maxims)

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An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. Labeled as letter #297 in the linked source, but #298 in the volume I am using as reference, which does not include the maxims.
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A quotation from Lemony Snicket

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding — which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together — blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author ….

Lemony Snicket (b. 1970) American author, screenwriter, musician (pseud. for Daniel Handler)
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12, The Penultimate Peril, ch. 13 (2005)

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A quotation from Brennan Manning

To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Furious Longing of God, ch. 7 “Healing” (2009)

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A quotation from Richard Steele

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Richard Steele (1672-1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1710-08-07), The Tatler, No. 208

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A quotation from William Winter

For I know that Death is a guest divine,
   Who shall drink my blood as I drink this wine.
And He cares for nothing! a King is He!
   Come on, old fellow, and drink with me!
With you I will drink to the solemn Past, —
   Though the cup that I drain should be my last.

William Winter (1836-1917) American dramatic critic and author
Poem (1860-01-07), “Orgia: The Song of a Ruined Man,” st. 13ff New-York Saturday Press, Vol. 3 No. 1

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Winter, William - Poem (1860-01-07), "Orgia: The Song of a Ruined Man," st. 13ff New-York Saturday Press, Vol. 3 No. 1 | WIST Quotations

For I know that Death is a guest divine, Who shall drink my blood as I drink this wine. And He cares for nothing! a King is He! Come on, old fellow, and drink with me! With you I will drink to the solemn Past, -- Though the cup that…
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A quotation (not) from Shakespeare

What a terrible era in which the idiots govern the blind.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

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What a terrible era in which the idiots govern the blind. Frequently attributed to Shakespeare in social media posts (of all political stripes), but not found in any of his written works.
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A quotation from Olivia Butler

I wanted to understand the lies that people have to tell themselves when they either quietly or joyfully watch their neighbors ruined, spirited away, killed. Different versions of this horror have happened again and again in history. They’re still happening in places like Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor, wherever one group of people permits its leaders to convince them that for their own protection, for the safety of their families and the security of their country, they must get their enemies, those alien others who until now were their neighbors.

Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Essay (2000-05), “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future,” Essence Magazine

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A quotation from Neal Stephenson

As a fantasy writer, he was not highly regarded (“one cannot call him profoundly mediocre without venturing so far out on the critical limb as to bend it to the ground,” “so derivative that the reader loses track of who he’s ripping off,” “to say he is tin-eared would render a disservice to a blameless citizen of the periodic table of the elements”).

Neal Stephenson (b. 1959) American novelist
Reamde, Part 1 “Nine Dragons – Thanksgiving,” prologue (2011)

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A quotation from Terry Pratchett

The gods gave people a sense of humor to make up for giving them sex.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 7, Pyramids [Ptraci] (1989)

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