To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.


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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in so...
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And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the mu...
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empt...
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The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
HARRY TRUMAN
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may c...
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof...
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing wit...
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There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citize...
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...
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Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
HARRY TRUMAN
I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another leve...
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I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of ...
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You rem...
HARRY TRUMAN
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
HARRY TRUMAN
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.
HARRY TRUMAN
Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand fo...
HARRY TRUMAN
It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
BESS TRUMAN
I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall...
BESS TRUMAN
It's nice to win.
BESS TRUMAN
I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these book...
BESS TRUMAN
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on str...
BESS TRUMAN
I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
BESS TRUMAN
But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I beca...
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Never love a wild thing... you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger ...
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always luggin...
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You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frus...
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You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quiet sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frus...
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a hou...
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Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
HARRY TRUMAN
Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streakin...
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Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: th...
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It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own ho...
MARGARET TRUMAN