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Our classes were relatively s...

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

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What everybody is well advise...

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

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I myself grew up when radio w...

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

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My ancient history teacher, M...

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

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It was headquartered in Michi...

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

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As a matter of social class K...

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

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One of the things I'm going t...

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

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In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Rel...

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

Kurt Vonnegut 962 quotes

In the middle of Siberia I gu...

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

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I taught writing for a while ...

I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.

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The polls demonstrate that 50...

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.

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One thing I hate about school...

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

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My definition of a man's man ...

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

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George Bush and his gang imag...

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

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That is how you get to be a w...

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

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I asked myself about the pres...

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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We are what we pretend to be,...

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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I get up at 7:30 and work fou...

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

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Maturity is a bitter disappoi...

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

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People need good lies. There ...

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....