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| The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. | George F. Will | 1941-, American Political Columnist |
| Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. | George Granville | |
| The eyes have one language everywhere. | George Herbert | 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
| I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. | George Herbert Palmer | |
| The newest books are those that never grow old. | George Holbrook Jackson | 1874-1948, British Essayist, Literary Historian, |
| The newest books are those that never grow old. | George Holbrook Jackson | 1874-1948, British Essayist, Literary Historian, |
| Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. | George Holbrook Jackson | 1874-1948, British Essayist, Literary Historian, |
| Speech is the small change of silence. | George Meredith | 1828-1909, British Author |
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| A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially. | George Moore | 1852-1933, Irish Writer |
| The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| The existence of good bad literature --the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously --is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing | George Perera | |
| Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely¨ change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. | George Sheehan | |
| The age of the book is almost gone. | George Steiner | 1929-, French-born American Critic, Novelist |
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| Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. | George Steiner | 1929-, French-born American Critic, Novelist |
| If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. | George Washington | 1732-1799, First President of the USA |
| Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius. | Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon | 1707-1788, French Naturalist |
| Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose. | Georgia O'Keeffe | American painter |
| Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded. | Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1844-1889, British Poet |
| Remarks are not literature. | Gertrude Stein | 1874-1946, American Author |
| I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty. | Ghita Levine | |
| The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. | Giambattista Vico | 1688-1744, Italian Philosopher, Historian |
| A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
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| People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent. | Gillian Anderson | 1968, American Actress |
| Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. | Giorgos Seferis | |
| The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. | Gloria Steinem | 1934-, American Feminist Writer, Editor |
| The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. | Grace | Patricia) Kelly (1929-82, American Actress and Princess of Monaco |
| It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. | Graham Greene | 1904-1991, British Novelist |
| The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| This book fills a much-needed gap. | Hadas In A Review. | |
| Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered. | Haneef Fatmi | |
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| To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. | Hannah Arendt | 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher |
| Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. | Hannah Arendt | 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher |
| What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. | Hansell B. Duckett | |
| Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. | Harper Lee | 1926-, American Author |
| Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. | Harriet Braiker | American Psychologist and Management Consultant |
| Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. | Harriet Martineau | 1802-1876, British Writer, Social Critic |
| Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents. | Harry Mathews | 1930-, American Novelist |
| Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. | Hazel Rochman | |
| If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world. | Heinrich Heine | 1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist |
| College isn't the place to go for ideas. | Helen Keller | 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist |
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