1. "Aron’s conclusion was an epigram: Peace impossible, war unlikely."
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Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
2. "A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling."
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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
3. "What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
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Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. "This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
5. "This isn’t just an epigram – life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
6. "This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
7. "The other day I made an epigram. I said, Anni’s beauty is only sin-deep. I hope that’s original? Is it? Please laugh."
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Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories
8. "There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté."
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Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead
9. "It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence."
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Quote by Søren Kierkegaard
10. "[On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. [Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]"
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Quote by Dorothy Parker