All Quotes
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.Kin Hubbard
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.George Bernard Shaw
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.Bertolt Brecht
I love America. You always hurt the one you love.David Frye impersonating Nixon
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.Thomas Fuller
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.Orson Welles, 1966
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.W.H. Auden
Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.Samuel Butler
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.Robert Benchley