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- There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
- Anatole Broyard
- I hate women because they always know where things are.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77
- I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
- I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
- Thomas Berger
- I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
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