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- The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.
- W.S. Gilbert
- I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754), "Jonathan Wild"
- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
- Kelvin Throop
- When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.
- E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
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