“ The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where. ”
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“ The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ”
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“ The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. ”
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“ There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ”
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“ It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ”
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“ Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person. ”
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“ Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ”
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“ Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. ”
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“ It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. ”
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“ All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ”
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“ If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ”
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“ You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night. ”
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“ You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon. ”
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“ Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. ”
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“ Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. ”
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“ Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ”
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“ It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ”
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“ Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. ”
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“ Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ”
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“ The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader. ”
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“ There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. ”
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“ We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. ”
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“ The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader. ”
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“ Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. ”
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“ We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. ”
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“ But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept… ”
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