"Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in."

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“The American Enterprise Magazine”

“The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.”

“Magellan's Log: Florence King”

“There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.”

“Florence King on National Review Online”

“During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.”

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"Profile and criticism at Poets.org"

— Marianne Moore

Literature1887–1972

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"The potential conflict inherent in every word, and finding expression in the fact that the use of every word is an individual embodiment of a general concept, is the focal point of semantics understoo…"

— Witold Doroszewski

1899–1976

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"The trick is to maintain a kind of naïve amazement at each instant of experience—but, as Montaigne learned, one of the best techniques for doing this is to write about everything. Simply describing an…"

— Sarah Bakewell

Literature1963

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"I want them to try it. It may work, and it may not work. But if it doesn’t work, it’s nothing lost by doing it. Nothing. Because we know long-term what I want. I want to save lives, and I don’t want i…"

— Donald Trump

Politics1945

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