"Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about."

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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

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Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

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Lee Van Cleef, American Actor

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

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"Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?"

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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."

"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

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"A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers."

"Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?"

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"Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about."