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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
-- John LeCarre

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
-- John Keats

Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
-- John Donne

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- John Gilmore

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
-- John Galsworthy

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
-- John Ciardi

Quality without creativity is pompous;
Creativity without quality is infantile.

-- John Cerruti

Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night. Mendelssohn lost.

"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."
-- John Updike

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
-- John Gall ("Systemantics")

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
-- John Keats