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- He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries
- The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
- Ethel Mumford
- A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
- Rex Stout (1886 - 1975)
- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks, 1944
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