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- Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.
- Wilfred Sheed
- Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Henry James chews more than he bites off.
- Mrs Henry Adams (c. 1880)
- When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
- Cecilia Bartholomew
- Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- John Viscount Morley
- The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.
- Thomas C. Haliburton
- A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- H.H. Munro (Saki)
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