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I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
Russell Banks
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
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Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.


Gilbert Murray
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Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.


Richard Gere
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There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
George Washington
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
Pierre Jean de Beranger
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They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.
Katie Couric
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The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.
Robert Fortune
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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.
Vladimir Putin
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Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.


Italo Calvino
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
Zadie Smith
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Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
Lisa Ling
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I believe if you act with people who are better than you, it's only going to make you better.


Drew Fuller
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
John W. Gardner
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.


Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.


Tim Vine
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.


Billy Joel
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.


Thomas Huxley
Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.
Susan B. Anthony
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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
Ken Thompson