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- Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
- Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- He grounds the warship he walks on.
- John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
- Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
- Ruth Gordon
- Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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