39 Quotes by John Bartlett

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    And Friday, my dear Friday, died of measles, 17 years ago come March.

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    Naked lunch— a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

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    Achievement— the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

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    No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.

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    The Goops they lick their fingers, / And the Goops they lick their knives; / They spill their broth on the tablecloth—/ Oh, they lead disgusting lives! / The Goops they talk while eating, / And loud and fast they chew; / And that is why I'm glad that I / am not a Goop— are you?

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    Let not ambition mock their useful toil, / Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; / Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, / The short and simple annals of the poor.

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    And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

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    It is the vague and elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back

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    The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.

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