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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."
"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."
"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."
"I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."
"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."
"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."
"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."
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