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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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.

Phone
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Nov 07, 2020

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

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.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

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

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Nov 07, 2020

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Hate
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Nov 07, 2020

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

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