I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
#quotes #john-shelton-reed #south #san-jose

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. ~Stanley B. Prusiner
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. ~Oscar Wilde
#quotes #oscar-wilde #fashion

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
#quotes #chic-murray #humor

Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
#quotes #h-g-wells #wish #hardship

When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
#quotes #ian-mcewan #education #intelligence

I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
#quotes #robert-smith #achievement

Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. ~Daphne Guinness
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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