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“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Source : Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
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“That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?”
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“I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.”
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“Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.”
Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"
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“I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.”
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“I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.”
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“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
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“[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.”
Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House
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“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
