42 Things You May Not Expect to Hear From Legendary Authors
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42 Things You May Not Expect to Hear From Legendary Authors
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1. "Every savage can dance." - Jane Austen

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2. "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." - Joseph Conrad

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3. "Four legs good, two legs bad." - George Orwell

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4. "There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity." - Vladimir Nabokov

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5. "Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why." - James Joyce

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6. "I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect." - Henry James

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7. “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” - William Faulkner

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8. "Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals." - John Steinbeck

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9. "At fifty everyone has the face he deserves." - George Orwell

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10. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." - Leo Tolstoy

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11. "Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips." - Charles Dickens

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12. "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury

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13. "I don't like allegories." - J.R.R. Tolkien

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14. "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen

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15. "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway

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16. "My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions." - James Joyce

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17. "Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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18. "People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov

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19. "Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed." - Geoffrey Chaucer

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20. "An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex." - Aldous Huxley

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21. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell

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22. "I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them." - Henry James

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23. "So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being." - Franz Kafka

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24. "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" - Ernest Hemingway

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25. "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." - Mark Twain

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26. "If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it." - Ray Bradbury

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27. “Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.” - William Faulkner

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28. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell

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29. "He would make a lovely corpse." - Charles Dickens

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30. "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway

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31. "When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the human race." - H.G. Wells

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32. "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." - Herman Melville

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33. “If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.” - Phillip K. Dick

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34. "Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity." - Geoffrey Chaucer

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35. "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

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36. "The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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37. "Life is a predicament which precedes death." - Henry James

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38. "I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great." - Ray Bradbury

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39. "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers." - Charles Dickens
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40. "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." - Mark Twain

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41. "I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man." - George Orwell

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42. “Pouring out liquor is like burning books.” - William Faulkner

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On the surface, rap songs may carry a surface perception of negativity. However, exploring their lyrics reveals profound hidden depth.Despite occasional profanity, it's crucial to look beyond it. Rap transcends mere wordplay; these 25 song lyrics impart valuable life lessons, offering insights that extend beyond the conventional perception of rap music.

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21 Drinks For Your 21st Birthday

Maybe don't try them all in one day...

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21 Drinks For Your 21st Birthday

My 21st birthday is finally almost here. In honor of finally turning 21, I thought I'd share 21 fun drinks since it's finally legal for me to drink them.

Some of these drinks are basic, but some of them are a little more interesting. I thought they all looked pretty good and worth trying, so choose your favorites to enjoy at your big birthday bash!

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Ancient Roman Kings: 7 Leaders of Early Rome

The names and dates of the reigns of the first four kings, as well as the alternation of Sabin and Latin names, are more legendary than historical. The last three kings, of Etruscan origin, have an existence which seems less uncertain.

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It is evident that all this is only a legend although archeology shows us little by little that these kings if they did not exist as the ancient history, describes them, have at least in the very Outlines were real as chief of a shepherd’s tribe. The period when kings ruled Rome could estimate at 245 years.

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