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• There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

  Erica Jong

  Vienna, Married, Flight

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 01, 2015

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• A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.

  Mark Zandi

  Believe, Home, Years

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• Behold the Child among his new-born blisses
  A six years' Darling of a pigmy size!
  See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,
  Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,
  With light upon him from his father's eyes!
  See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,
  Some fragment from his dream of human life,
  Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Dream, Art

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.388

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• A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Eight, Interesting

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Might, Pounds

  Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.360

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• I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Six Months, Done, Painting

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• There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Believe, Science

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• I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Hands, Research

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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• The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

  George Steiner

  Self, Years, Awareness

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.231, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

  Ted Allen

  Golf, People, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Growing Up, Kids, Important

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• The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Dream, Car

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• With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

  Harrison Ford

  Army, Games, Enemy

  "‘Cowboys & Aliens’ star Harrison Ford: Most special-effects films are soulless now". herocomplex.latimes.com. April 25, 2011.

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• You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Writing, Years

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

  William Safire

  Fighting, Light, Years

  "Newswords" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.

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• I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Thinking, Important

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• Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Play, Trying

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

  Jimmy Connors

  Senior, Years, Remember

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• No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eight, Two, Twelve

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Latin, Book

  "Evaristo Carriego" by Jorge Luis Borges, (Ch. 3), 1930.

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• I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, Years, Expectations

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• Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Couple, Writing, Next Week

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Pages, Sometimes

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• The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Writing, Trouble

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• I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Taken, Golf

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