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One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.


Diane Wakoski


#books #bookshelves #claim #every #exist

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.


Wendy Wasserstein


#bake #clean #clean up #death #desk

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.


George Orwell


#designed #give #language #lies #make

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.


Philip Stanhope


#certain degree #degree #fear #fools #great

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.


Anthony Trollope


#matrimony #respectable #road #wealth

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.


Voltaire


#defects #ends #makes #making #men

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.


Samuel Butler


#i #knows #legitimate #like #music

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.


Humphrey Carpenter


#form #lying #most #probably #respectable

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.


Joseph de Maistre


#creep #enough #flesh #i #know

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.


Jon Meacham


#against #back #because #believe #century






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