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- Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea.
- Tom K. Ryan
- Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
- Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
- Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor - unassisted.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
- Jacqueline Susann, after reading Portnoy's Complaint
- No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- You kids today have it easy. When I was a kid everything was HUGE. My dad was nearly four times bigger than me. You couldn't even see the tops of counters.... Then gradually everything became smaller until it was the manageable size it is today.
- Bizarro (comic strip)
- Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - ), Conversations With Gore Vidal - 1981
- After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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