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"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
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"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease."
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"The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit."
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"Oh, and Mr. Montgomery? I think I counted about four dozen important-sounding words and almost no substance at all in that explanation. I don't think you should close the door on your diplomatic career entirely."
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"Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist."
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
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"I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo.""Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?"
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"They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel."
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"DeadPool reminds me for some other films which are sci-fi, like Selflessness and Mr.Nobody....But the speech is awful it must be fixed!"
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"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
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"Atheism is the last word of theism."
Religion
"Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented."
Marriage
"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."
Nature
"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."
Music
"Oh, what lies there are in kisses."
Humor
"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."
Death
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
Books
"It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?"
Religion
"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."
Being
"Woman is at once apple and serpent."
Woman
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