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Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994


But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead�a dead parent, for example�can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Lillian Hellman


If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936


So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Scottish Proverb


Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

Charles Horton Cooley


When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Publilius Syrus


To do two things at once is to do neither.

Jean Anouilh


Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Virgil, Aeneid


I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville


In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate.

Chinese Proverb


If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

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