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"Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. writing becomes a process of discovery." »S. O'Brien
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"writing, I think, is not apart from living. writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind." »Catherine Drinker Bowen
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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose." »Samuel McChord Crothers
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"writing only leads to more writing." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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"The billiard table is better than the doctor." »Mark Twain
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"Do not speak of repulsive matters at table." »Amy Vanderbilt
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"Who depends on another man's table often dines late." »Italian Proverb
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"Spread the table and contention will cease." »English Proverb
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"She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table." »Henry James
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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table." »Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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"All great change in America begins at the dinner table." »Ronald Reagan
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"I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise before thou hast filled it." »Arabic Proverb
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"It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table." »A Bartlett Giamatti
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"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table." »Max Beerbohm
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"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears." »Winston Churchill
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"Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears." »Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
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"True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home." »John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century
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"True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home." »John Hay
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"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table." »Jean Kerr
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity." »Lord Acton
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"There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next." »Johathan Edwards
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"There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another?s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction." »The Talmud
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"Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again." »Delmore Schwartz
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"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"God is love, but get it in writing." »Gypsy Rose Lee
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"There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table." »Charlie Manuel
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"Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." »Cyril Connolly
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