#learns

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#art #away #craft #desire #end

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. ↗

— Prince Charles

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One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#canal #feats #his #learns #literary

Every German child learns to speak English in school. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#english #every #german #learns #school

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#certain #child #comes #company #father

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ↗

— Mark Twain

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lessons #many #prison #things #will

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#been #books #changed #clip #faster