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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for. Dalton Trumbo
Life Democracy Man Sunday Live Think Everybody Worn Parades Out Kind Brought About Seems Something Only Leads Like Talking Understand Die Decent Decent Man Now Suit
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. Dorothy Gilman
Man Hell Hot Afraid Ashes Hell Is
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. E. M. Forster
Great Man Wonderful Great Literature About Towards Wrote Reads Condition Literature Who
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. E. W. Howe
Friendship You Trouble Think Appropriate Something Annoy Him Friend Up Anything Asking
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up. E. W. Howe
Man Thief Saved Everything Locked Locked Up Finding Up Being Many
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. Elie Wiesel
Life Obligation Overcome Our Give Indifferent Doing Passive Meaning
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. Elie Wiesel
Universe Everyone Killer Had Concentration Came His Discovered Camps Die Where Place Victims Whole
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. Elizabeth Bowen
Fate Rat Like Eagle Creeps
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. Elizabeth Gilbert
Love Alone Day Family Me Silence Country Reading Everyone Spend All Day Favorite Possible Thousand Thousand Miles Find Unreachable Most Also Foreign Foreign Country Friends Friends And Family Walking Eight Miles Away Things
One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything! Emile Zola
Arrogant Everything Indeed Must Take Know Hand Imagine
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. Erica Jong
You Woman Women Smart See Guy Guys Dumb Lot Ever Hardly
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. Erica Jong
Me You Man Woman Guilty Feel Show Who
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
You Trouble Risk More Anything Even
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. Ernest Hemingway
War Defeat Once Worse Must One Thing Only Only One Thing Won Than Any Happen Ever Thing Things Brings
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. Ernest Hemingway
One Thing No-One True Thing
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. Ernest Hemingway
Life Good Book Damn Other Enough Good Parts Wreck Something Only Writer Parts Overhear His May Whole Lucky
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. Fay Weldon
Nature Women First Beauty Gives Takes Away Present
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. Frank Delaney
Build Our Ancestors Reconnect Identities Understand Stories
He who awaits much can expect little. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He Expect Little Much Who Awaits
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Me Mouth Everything Out Seems Make Goes Fat
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald
Life Age Within Fresh Decay Bursts Swelling
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Georges Duhamel
Memory Value Our True Know Until Undergone Test True Value Moments
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. Gerard De Nerval
Good Good And Evil Evil Single Nothing Universe Dissolve Everything Distinction Rightly Has-Been Lies Atom Between Powerless Terror Said Been Eternal Unimportant Save
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. Gore Vidal
World First Country Dissent Corporate States Entirely Objectivity First World Opinion Western Western World Wonders Grip Much Less Media United Ever United States Eliminate
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. Gore Vidal
Unhappy General American Bigoted Declining Ignorant Incomes Deeply
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. Gore Vidal
Stupid Enough Remembered Forgotten Anybody Want Who Now Deserves Right
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