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- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
- Phonograph, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table.
- Unknown
- You've got be careful about getting locked into open systems.
- IBM salesman
- Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.
- Wilfred Sheed
- Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
- Cecilia Bartholomew
- Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- John Viscount Morley
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