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“One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.”

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Peter Cook was a British actor, screenwriter, and comedian, known for his unique sense of humor and his subversive approach to traditional comedy. His career began in the 1950s, and he had a profound impact on the British comedy scene. more

“and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“Now my charms are all o'erthrown.”

Charm

Author:William Shakespeare

“You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'”

Knows Men Should Mean Shows Eye Values Forget Performances Sells Various Know Yourself Nero

Author:Epictetus

“Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.”

Has Beens Book Ideas Dark Existence Brain Silent Depth Delivering Great Book Embryos Midwife

Book:The lifetime reading plan

Source: The lifetime reading plan

“To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.”

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Book:My Booky Wook

Source: My Booky Wook

“It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.”

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Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

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