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- In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
- The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
- Quentin Crisp
- One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
- Wilfrid Sheed
- The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Now is the time for all good men to come to.
- Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973)
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier
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