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Pithy Quotes

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Blaise Pascal
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)”
Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

Isaac Asimov
“Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.”
Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

Haruki Murakami
“What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have”
Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

Vladimir Nabokov
“Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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Dorothy Parker
“The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock
Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock”
Dorothy Parker

Rachel Heffington
“The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.”
Rachel Heffington

Josh Stern
“It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light”
josh stern

P.D. James
“Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you’ve been busily cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary.”
P.D. James, A Taste for Death

Eddie Mumford
“Money is a tool, so I don't have to be.”
Eddie Mumford

Scarlet Ibis James
“Why everybody in such a hurry to get old?”
Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Birthright: What They Left Behind

“The thought of erasing one's identity and fitting in with the crowd is definitely scary. Action is a different matter though. We act all the time to fit in.”
R. N. Prasher

Iain Pears
“Stick to journalism, Mr Cort, where you never have to understand anything.”
Iain Pears

Osho
“Nobody reaches anywhere by believing.”
Osho

“You mean the whole thing with the waiter? That was nothingâ€� Alex genuinely did not consider it a matter of import.

“Really? Alex, you expect me to believe that it was nothing?�

Alex thought about for a minute, chewed his rib eye and simply answered, “yes”
L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Souls' Inverse

“One doesn't expect a falcon to pull a plow, or a butterfly to cook your breakfast.”
Katherine Blake, The Interior Life
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