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You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it.


Kenneth Goldsmith

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Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to rid...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without er...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environme...
ZAC GOLDSMITH I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH It's quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the n...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ra...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH It's always harder to prove what somebody said when it's one person against another.
BARRY GOLDSMITH There were some sprinkles or light drizzle but nothing of importance.
BARRY GOLDSMITH It'll be a little bit tough. It'll get dense overnight.
BARRY GOLDSMITH It drifted inland and collided with the East Coast sea breeze. From Brevard County north to Jacksonv...
BARRY GOLDSMITH It won't wipe out stock fraud, but it will give investors a much better tool,
BARRY GOLDSMITH As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must nece...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
JAMES GOLDSMITH When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her mel...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and f...
MARTIN GOLDSMITH While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and indi...
ZAC GOLDSMITH With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying lo...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly tr...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word-- ...
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