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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate women because they always know where things are.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
- Naive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
- Birth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
- Glow
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- Faults
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
- Nov 07, 2020
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
- Discussion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discussion in America means dissent.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020