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- Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
- Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
- Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
- A.J. Liebling
- The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.
- Bill Maher
- Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
- Alan Corenk
- Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton
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