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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.: Augustine Birrell
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.: Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.: Oriana Fallaci
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
Vice...Virtue...It's not good to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.: Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.: Sir Robert Hutchison

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