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- A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others.
- Marcel Ophuls
- Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
- Guy Davenport
- Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
- Roy Blount Jr.
- If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner
- Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- How do you like that guy? Can't run six balls and he's President of the United States.
- Pool hustler Johnny Irish on Nixon
- A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.
- Mick Lloyd Kerman
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