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—A.J. Liebling, 1960
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If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCHate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873