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- Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Social Studies (1981)
- It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
- Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
- Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
- If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
- Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), Diary in Exile (1959)
- I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
- You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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