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Quotes by Writer
"The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head."
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"A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower."
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"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
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"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation."
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"Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants."
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"Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life."
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"You can't try to do things you simply must do them."
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"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door."
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"I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach."
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"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries."
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"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."
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"Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass."
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"To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up."
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"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"
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"The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying."
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"It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might as well say that our legs are of pagan origin. Nobody ever disputed that humanity was human before it was Christian; and no Church manufactured the legs with which men walked or danced, either in a pilgrimage or a ballet. What can really be maintained, so as to carry not a little conviction, is this: that where such a Church has existed it has preserved not only the processions but the dances; not only the cathedral but the carnival. One of the chief claims of Christian civilisation is to have preserved things of pagan origin."
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"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
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"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame."
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"Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe."
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"Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression."
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"Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated."
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"As you act with more control, compassion, and love, the lives of those around you improve. When you let yourself find happiness, your friends, family, and acquaintances will begin to find their happiness too."
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"Humor: the divine flash that reveals the world in its moral ambiguity and man in his profound incompetence to judge others; humor: the intoxicating relativity of human things; the strange pleasure that conies of the certainty that there is no certainty.But humor, to recall Octavio Paz, is "the great invention of the modern spirit." It has not been with us forever, and it won't be with us forever either.With a heavy heart, I imagine the day when Panurge no longer makes people laugh."
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