- Dying
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
- Compounding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Necessity
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- Nov 07, 2020