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Distinction Quotes - Page 2

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Samuel Foote (1760). “The Minor: A Comedy. Written by Mr. Foote. As it is Now Acting at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. ...”, p.39

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.202, Harvard University Press

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

"We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 10, 2009.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.160, Random House