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- Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks. - Ellen Herman, Northern Exposure, Only You, 1991
- Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
- Cullen Hightower
- The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
- Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
- A poem is no place for an idea.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), Country Town Sayings, 1911
- I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
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