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- Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.
- Mouth organist Larry Adler
- In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.
- Unknown
- 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
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- 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
- Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in matters of taxation, which do not count, since here your are not lying to take someone else's goods, but to prevent your own from being unjustly seized.
- (Giovanni Morelli)
- People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
- Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
- The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
- Quentin Crisp
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