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- The postman always rings twice.
- James M. Cain (1892 - 1977), Book title
- You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), La Chute (The Fall),1956
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Erewhon (1872)
- Politics is the art of the possible.
- Otto Von Bismarck (1815 - 1898), remark, Aug. 11, 1867
- There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see. - Nat Burton, White Cliffs of Dover (song, 1941)
- The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981), Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
- There's no business like show business.
- Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), Song title
- Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly. - Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), Waiting for Godot (1955)
- Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), The Unnamable (1959) page 418
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun (1951)
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