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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.


Malcolm Cowley

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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
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“Tempting,” ...
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“She�...
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LJUPKA CVETANOVA I’m coming for you.
—J
P.S. Please don’t die.
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Bacchus ...
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- Гррр! - обади...
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KARL HEPNER We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
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RICK RIORDAN Now, leave."
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MALCOLM MCDOWELL You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
MALCOLM LOWRY War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under dif...
MALCOLM LOWRY Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
MALCOLM LOWRY Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the t...
MALCOLM LOWRY An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The underdog winning is the romantic position.
MALCOLM GLADWELL Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability...
MALCOLM GLADWELL As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
MALCOLM GLADWELL The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petul...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse....
MALCOLM GLADWELL In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physi...
MALCOLM GLADWELL What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't jud...
MALCOLM GLADWELL You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly peo...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technol...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
MALCOLM GLADWELL If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you ru...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man...
MALCOLM GETS I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. Whe...
MALCOLM GETS Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels ...
MALCOLM GETS For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the perf...
MALCOLM GETS I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York...
MALCOLM GETS I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everyb...
MALCOLM GETS People die because they find living too painful.
MALCOLM FRASER Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
MALCOLM FRASER If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropr...
MALCOLM FRASER Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical c...
MALCOLM FRASER Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it woul...
MALCOLM FRASER Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making...
MALCOLM FRASER