We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it. - Anthony Burgess - Quotesmemo.com

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My parents, the effect that [Frank Sinatra] had on the Italian community, in terms of all our friends at the house were multicultural. We weren't just Italians. My dad's close friend was a black gentleman - this was back in the early 50s when Tony Bennett was reprimanded for having lunch, when he was in the military, with a black man.

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Anthony Burgess

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

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The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986

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Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

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I was cured all right.

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And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

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How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

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Robert Davi

Robert Davi

My parents, the effect that [Frank Sinatra] had on the Italian community, in terms of all our friends at the house were multicultural. We weren't just Italians. My dad's close friend was a black gentleman - this was back in the early 50s when Tony Bennett was reprimanded for having lunch, when he was in the military, with a black man.

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Kelly Blatz

I have always been into music ever since I was a kid.

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Max Wertheimer

Max Wertheimer

There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such wholes.

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

The point of advertising is to destroy markets.

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Isabel Briggs Myers

Isabel Briggs Myers

Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

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