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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#corner #current #found #his #merely

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#books #lifeless #lumps #minds #paper

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#boring #find #i #justice #passion

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#hated #i #into #juries #political

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#having #his #hitchcock #i #just

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#elegance #excellent #fondness #had #his

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#cheap #congress #does #except #talk

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#called #controversial #humorists #issue #people

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#absolutely free #brief #called #experience #free

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#building #culture #democracy #election #event