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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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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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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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Humor is tragedy plus time.

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