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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.


Patrick Chappatte
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
William Ernest Henley
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.


Juan Ramon Jimenez
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We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.


George Henry Lewes
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
Khaled Hosseini
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Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
Amy Gerstler
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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.


Gioachino Rossini
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.


Voltaire
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Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
Bayard Taylor
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I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.
Fran Kranz
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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.


Jacqueline Susann
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.


Henri Frederic Amiel
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
Al Gore
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I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.


David Eddings
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I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.
Daniel Suarez
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Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.
Apollonius of Tyana
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia