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Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?-- Paul Simon
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.-- John Stuart Mill
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-- John Keats
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
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand gay guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"-- John Stewart
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."-- John Galsworthy
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
"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
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.-- John LeCarre
"I have to find a way of saying the truth without saying it; that is exactly what is literature, after all: clever lies which only secretly say the truth."-- Simone de Beauvoir
"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."-- John Updike