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- Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Nihilism is best done by professionals.
- Iggy Pop
- His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980)
- They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
- O. Henry (1862 - 1910)
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