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- Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!
- Catullus
- To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
- The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
- Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
- John Updike (1932 - )
- This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
- Unknown
- Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
- When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
- J.P. Donleavy
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