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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.: George Saunders, last words
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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.: Christina Stead (1903 - 1983), House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"
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There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.: Rob Sheridan, Mad Love, The Young and The Reckless, 2011
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.: Sir Richard Steele
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.: Bill Vaughan
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.: A. H. Weiler (1909 - 2002)
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.: Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.: Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.: J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)