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- You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- Mark B. Cohen
- Women should be obscene and not heard.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
- It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877), "Biographical Studies", 1863
- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
- It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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