The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their … - Frederic Raphael

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Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source.

Frederic Raphael

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

Custodians, God, Insist, Literature, Party, Word

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Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Food, Great Restaurants, Mouths, Intends, Buckled, Belt

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

Crafts, Evening, Morning, Pages, Work

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

America, Become, Ideas, Should Have

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Fiction, Maybe, Stranger, Truth, Writing

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Doe, Vineyards, Television, Criticizes, Same

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Thomas Jefferson

we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two branches of Botany and Natural history to which we wish him particularly to apply.

Kindness, Educational, Two, Avail, Twelve, Month

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.

Attempt, Engage, Meaning, Mistake, Moving, Real

Dakota Fanning

With all of the characters I've played, I feel like I've tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That's something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.

Character, Characters, Communicate, Eye, Play, Played

John Locke

Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.

Entering, Government, Men, People, Preservation, Should Have

Chris Guillebeau