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- Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
- Robert Byrne
- Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944), 1912
- Good taste is the enemy of creativity
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- I know a mother-in-law who sleeps with her glasses on, the better to see her son-in-law suffer in her dreams.
- Ernest Coquelin
- Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
- Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
- Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is First Lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for President are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
- Nora Ephron, from her San Francisco lecture, November 4, 1983
- It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
- Richard J. Ferris, president, United Airlines
- Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Jan. 3, 1861
- Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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