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- Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
- Guy Davenport
- Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
- Roy Blount Jr.
- Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- How do you like that guy? Can't run six balls and he's President of the United States.
- Pool hustler Johnny Irish on Nixon
- A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture.
- Mick Lloyd Kerman
- I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
- Nancy Reagan (1921 - )
- The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- 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)
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