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Some people do better on their own. I don't.

~George Peppard

Topics: Better Own People Some Some People

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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: About Actually Being Better Books Events Flickering Hardly Life Like Lose Odd Part Place Real Real Life Remember Seems Sometimes Tend Than Them Thing Took Were Writer Writing You Your Yourself

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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

~George S. Kaufman

Topics: Absent Author Better Dead Dramatic Only Rehearsals Than

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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

~George S. Patton

Topics: Better Executed Good Next Now Perfect Plan Than Violently Week

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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

~George S. Patton

Topics: Better Fight Live Nothing Something Than

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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

~George Santayana

Topics: Better Fun Good Good Thing Nothing Only Spoils Thing A Good Thing

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

~George Santayana

Topics: Behind Better Children Expected Happier His Hope Least Make Man Many Pathetic Possessions

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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

~George Santayana

Topics: Advertising Appear Argument Better Function Make Modern Substitute Worse

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If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

~George Saunders

Topics: Better Fiction Kind Model Ought Out Positive Scale Somewhere Than Then Things Think Thought Too Turn Where Work World Would You

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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

~George Savile

Topics: Against Best Better Drunkard Ever Preached Sermon Sight Subject Than Vice

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