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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.: A. Whitney Brown
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Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.: Dick Gregory (1932 - )
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.: Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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The pleasure of love is in loving.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.: Okakura Kakuzo
I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.: Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.: Rita Mae Brown
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