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" A sure window into a person's soul is his reading list " ...Mary B.W. Tabor...
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"I dont need money. I dont like money. Money is responsible for more extravagance than any other commodity in existence. Besides, it and I are not intimate enough to get along very well together, and when I have any I do my level best to rid myself of it."

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Zora Neale Hurston................." I did not fall in love I made a parachute jump "
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"We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - Unknown
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" The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul....BOOKS "...Emily Dickinson...
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"He had a sound like a girl saying yes."

Eddie Condon's comment on Bix Beiderbeckes cornet sound.
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" It took me eighteen yrs. to discover that i had no talent for writing , but i couldn't give it up because by that time i was too famous "....Robt. Benchley...
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I havent heard that name for a day or two. I remember his movie shorts, they were funny.

To the butcher - May you never make a mis-steak in your endeavor to make both ends meat.

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" Books worth reading are worth re-reading "....Holbrook Jackson
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"Good authors who once knew better words now only use four letter words writing prose."

Ramona Davies
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Bighuey wrote:"Good authors who once knew better words now only use four letter words writing prose."

Ramona Davies

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E.L.Doctorow............." Writing a novel is like driving a car at night, you can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way "
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You got it, Geneen. Actually Cole Porter said it, but Ramona Davies did a good job of it.
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Poet Ogden Nash..." Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker "
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"No successful businessman ever spends his own money."

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