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- ...You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
- Graham Green, *The Quiet American*
- Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
- Richard Benner
- He's a complete and total psychopath. I don't mean that in the criminal sense, of course, but in a professional sense. People like that will do anything to hold on to their jobs.
- Liz Trotta on Dan Rather
- Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years.
- Liz Trotta on John Chancellor
- The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
- Kenneth Patchen
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