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- I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex.
- Earl Wilson
- There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
- P.J. O'Rourke (commenting on _Moby Dick_)
- The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)
- If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."
(crosses stream) "As I thought," he said, "no better from this side." - Eeyore (A. A. Milne)
- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
- E.M. Cioran
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
- Matthew Green (c. 1737)
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