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• But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to life. He shot lions and leopards because he bloody well liked to hunt and shoot, and killing was the best punctuation mark at the end of the intricate and fascinating process of hunting.

  Robert Ruark

  Hunting, Punctuation Marks, Leopards

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• It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.

  Allan Massie

  Mother, Book, Son

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• Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.

  Carrie Donovan

  Fashion, Kids, Dying

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• War is a horribly fascinating thing.

  Robert Sherrod

  War

  Robert Lee Sherrod (1945). “On to Westward: War in the Central Pacific”

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• It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

  Ednita Nazario

  Heard

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• John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether one agrees with his conclusions, his work is mandatory reading for anyone who is open-minded and serious about the gun control issue. Especially fascinating is his account of the often unscrupulous reactions to his research by gun control advocates, academic critics, and the news media.

  Gary Kleck

  Reading, Gun, Media

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• That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

  Jock Sturges

  Ambition, People, Interesting

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• I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

  Jean Plaidy

  Years, Cities, London

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• Why the hell wouldn't you want to be one of the fabulous people, the life enhancers, who look interesting and smell luscious and who dare to be gorgeously more fascinating than their neighbors?

  Simon Doonan

  Smell, People, Interesting

  Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking survey of the varieties the latter of these beliefs has had, both within and outside the Christian tradition. Becoming Divine reconstructs an accessible and fascinating mosaic of this too-long neglected idea, utilizing figures as disparate as Orphic cultists, Augustine, and Nietzsche.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Christian, Religious, Destiny

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• Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

  Michael Broadbent

  Wine, People, Perfect

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• For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

  Colin Greenwood

  Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.

  Emily Procter

  Thinking, Color, House

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• A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time.

  Herbie Brennan

  Thoughtful, Intelligent, Mars

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• You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

  Tasha Alexander

  Men, Age, Approach

  Tasha Alexander (2013). “The Lady Emily Omnibus (Books 1-4): And Only to Deceive, A Poisoned Season, A Fatal Waltz, Tears of Pearl”, p.511, Hachette UK

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• A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.

  F. Sionil José

  Writing, Soldier, Biographies

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• It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a text book, I mean, by this point I know about as much as most 'real' doctors.

  Zach Braff

  Real, Book, Mean

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• It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from sort of white suburban moms who, all of a sudden, their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, their schools aren't quite as good as they thought they were. And that's pretty scary.

  Arne Duncan

  Mom, Children, School

  "Duncan Apologizes For 'Clumsy' Common Core Remarks". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. Eric Westervelt.

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• Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

  Anne Lamott

  Intuition, Juicy, Rich

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

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• Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

  Dan Abrams

  Decision, Argument, Boring

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Determination, Degrees, Critics

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• The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

  Claudia Christian

  Jobs, Loving Life, Interesting

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• Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Thinking, Lds

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• How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Death, Light

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• I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see.

  Donald Fagen

  Art, Growing Up, Real

  Donald Fagen (2013). “Eminent Hipsters”, p.5, Penguin

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