309 Quotes About Figures

  • Author Irwin Shaw
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    Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

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  • Author Jules Shear
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    Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

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  • Author Kathryn Stockett
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    Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

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  • Author Neal Shusterman
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    How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

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  • Author Patti Smith
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    That whole thing about masturbating. Most girls, I guess nobody has to tell them, they just figure it out. I had to be told. Some girl actually had to show me a hairbrush and demonstrate exactly what to do. I just never figured that stuff out naturally.

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