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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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Tough times teach trust.

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

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What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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