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- If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870), fils
- One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
- Wilfrid Sheed
- I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
- Robert Byrne
- I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Of course, the person I was fleeing most fearfully was myself, for I drive, and I'm burning a collapsed barn behind the house next week because it is much the cheapest way to deal with it, and I live on about four hundred times the money that Thoreau conclusively proved was enough, so I've done my share to take this independent, eternal world and turn it into a science fair project.
- Bill McKibbon, "The End of Nature"
- As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.
- Elija Lovejoy
- A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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