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- A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
- S.J. Perelman
- Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
- Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
- Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
- I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. Galento, may he r3est in peace. Giardello, LaMotta, Carmen Basilio. What a sweetheart Basilio is. They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!
- Willie Pastrano
- I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
- Katharine Whitehorn
- Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
- Hedda Hopper
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.
- George Wither
- Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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