Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had 

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Sophie Kinsella  - Quotes

 There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive. 

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Sophie Kinsella  - Quotes

 People who want to make a million borrow a million first 

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Herman Wouk  - Quotes

 Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts. 

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Sophie Kinsella  - Quotes

 That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown. 

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