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- Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), 1966
- It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- I love America. You always hurt the one you love.
- David Frye impersonating Nixon
- Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- She ain't my mother, so I ain't gonna get her nothin'.
- Lee Trevino on a Mother's Day gift for his wife
- My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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