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- Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks (1926 - )
- A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin
- For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
- You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
- Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
- There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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