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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while."
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"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"The act of fishing " for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available " is enough."
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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."
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"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."
Success


"A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest."
Friendship


"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat."
Friendship


"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."
God


"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
Old


"How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?"
Will


"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
Car


"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
Car


"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
Car


"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
School
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