"There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?"

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Source : "Why Can't the English?" (song) (1956)

Alan Jay Lerner

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.”
“Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.”
“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.”

Source : "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.
“Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.”

Source : "Q & A With Marco Pierre White: Escoffier, Television, Packaged Soup + The French Foreign Legion". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. August 18, 2011.
“People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.”

Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.
“Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from some fully imagined universe, of which we only get to see this haunting, enticing sliver. I utterly love it.”
“The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.”

Source : "Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions". Book edited by Stuart Borlase, 2012.
“I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.”

Source : David Rakoff (2015). “The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish”, p.164, Anchor

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