The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (185 page)

Gill, Eric
1882–1940

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That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

Art-nonsense and Other Essays
(1929) "Slavery and Freedom".

 
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
1860–1935

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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Women and Economics
(1898) ch. 8

 
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Ginsberg, Allen
1926–97

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What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

"Graffiti" (1972).

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

Howl
(1956)

 
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Gipp, George
1895–1920

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Tell them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper.
the catchphrase "Win one for the Gipper" was later used by Ronald Reagan, who played Gipp in the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American

Knut Rockne "Gipp the Great" in
Collier's
22 November 1930

 
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Giraudoux, Jean
1882–1944

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As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
(1935) act 2, sc. 4 (tr. Christopher Fry as
Tiger at the Gates
, 1955)

 
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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
MGM paid her a large sum for the line for the 1941 film based on her life, "Blossoms in the Dust"

A. Loos
Kiss Hollywood Good-Bye
(1978)

 
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