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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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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."

"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."

"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."

"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."

"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."

"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."

"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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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."

"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."

"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."

"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."

"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."
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