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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."
Oliver W. Holmes

"Every society honours its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers."
Mignon McLaughlin

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
Alfred Hitchcock

"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."
George Sand

"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
Robert C. Gallagher

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Winston Churchill

"Every man's memory is his private literature."
Aldous Huxley

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
Heinrich Heine

"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."
Charles Lamb

"Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children."
Marilyn Penland

"Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks."
Robert Louis Stevenson

"History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses."
Charles Angoff

"When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathise are really looking for the particulars."
Edgar Watson Howe

"If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject."
Mignon McLaughlin

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."
Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity."
Malcolm Muggeridge

"In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot."
Arthur Koestler

"Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."
Archibald Philip Primrose

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
Albert Einstein

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
Alfred Hitchcock

"Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say."
Sharon O'Brien

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
Henry Brooks Adams

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
Henry Steele Commager

"It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls."
Ted Grant

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
George Smith Patton

"A library is thought in cold storage."
Herbert Samuel

"A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others."
Norman Shidle

"We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard."
Voltaire

"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings."
C.D. Jackson

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