"It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the internet-"You invented the inte"
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"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]"
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"Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?"
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"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"
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"My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep."
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"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
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"Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will."
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"Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife."
0
"... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebb TTT and skips."
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"I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library."
0
"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not."
0
"In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely."
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"He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can read and write start fighting for those who can't, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open."
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"She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing."
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"Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!"
1
"Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing."
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"Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away, up the s"
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"One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company)."
0
"I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success."
3
"The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice."
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