Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must...
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Camille Paglia
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
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Georgia OKeeffe
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
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Criss Jami
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Ambrose Bierce
More Quotes By Clive James
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.
The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.
