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The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.


Hugh Sidey

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Stitch life down fo...
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MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
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EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
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HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
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FREDERICK DODSON The word 'shrink' is on everybody's lips.
C. DAVID BUTLER Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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MARK SHERMAN SMEESTER Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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HUGH HEFNER The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
HUGH LAURIE I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost conc...
HUGH LAURIE What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty hav...
HUGH HEFNER I do like to do TV work when it's firing on all cylinders.
HUGH DILLON I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly c...
HUGH GRANT Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.
HUGH GRANT My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
HUGH LEONARD It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in t...
HUGH LAURIE The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I al...
HUGH HEFNER There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the hu...
HUGH MACLENNAN I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, '...
HUGH LAURIE I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
HUGH LEONARD