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- There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- Dinner theater is anti-culture.
- John Simon
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- ...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), _Phaedrus_
- It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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