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Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.


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PHILIP ROTH Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru...
PHILIP LARKIN After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p...
PHILIP STREIFER Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe...
PHILIP ROTH You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruit...
PHILIP MASSINGER If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says...
GENEREUX PHILIP To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ...
PHILIP YANCEY Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of o...
GENEREUX PHILIP The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
PHILIP KNIGHT Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
PHILIP WYLIE I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con...
PHILIP ROTH Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the...
PHILIP GUEDALLA All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
PHILIP JOHNSON Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an...
PHILIP ROTH Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER When in doubt, delete it.
PHILIP COSBY When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
PHILIP ROTH For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devil'...
PHILIP LARKIN He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
PHILIP MASSINGER We do pretty much whatever we want to.
PHILIP JOHNSON Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turn...
PHILIP LARKIN It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
PHILIP MASSINGER The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w...
PHILIP CALDWELL I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxf...
PHILIP GUEDALLA To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall...
PHILIP MASSINGER To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth...
PHILIP ROTH Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form...
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