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- Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
- The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
- Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
- You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
- The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
- Patrick Young
- If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963
- The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
- Miss Piggy
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