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- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
- W.H. Auden
- I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), 1966
- Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.
- Peggy Joyce
- I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight David Eisenhower
- I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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