General Sayings

206 sayings found from the Modern era from 206 authors

I am a man of letters, a man of words.

— James Joyce Unknown
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

— Virginia Woolf 1929
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The object of power is power.

— George Orwell 1949
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Most human beings are dead, in fact, though they may not know it.

— Aldous Huxley 1958
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

— Ernest Hemingway 1932
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I have seen the future and it is wireless.

— Guglielmo Marconi 1901
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That's the whole burden of this novel—the loss of certainties.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934
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He who awaits much can expect little.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1981
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Vitamin C is the most important of all vitamins.

— Linus Pauling 1970
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Don't talk to me about justice. I'm a man of letters, not a judge.

— Jorge Luis Borges 1967
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I dislike everything that is not in good taste, and good taste is simply the art of being able to live with bad taste.

— Oscar Wilde Late 19th Century
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Nationalism is a great menace. It is the greatest evil that the world is faced with today.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1917
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The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

— Chinua Achebe 1983
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The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.

— Anton Chekhov 1887
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The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.

— Rachel Carson 1963
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I hate the world and almost everything in it.

— Sylvia Plath 1963
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

— Jack Kerouac 1956
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Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!

— Allen Ginsberg 1955
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After a certain point, there is no return. This point has to be reached.

— William S. Burroughs 1959
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I am more than ever now the bride of science.

— Ada Lovelace 1843
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