Ten Random Quotes

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
Katharine Hepburn

"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
T. S. Eliot

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
Emile Zola

"We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world."
A. E. Housman

"Elevate those guns a little lower."
Andrew Jackson

"It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
George Orwell

"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
Ambrose Bierce

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5."
Fiona Apple

"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature."
Thomas B. Macaulay

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