"Can anything match that first fine discovery of……" — Alan Coren
"Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger."
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Alan Coren
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21 Quotes by Alan Coren
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I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows,…
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Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come
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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
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Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists…
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The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents…
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our…
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Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
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All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
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Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call…
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A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well,…
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In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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