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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

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One must travel, to learn.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

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There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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