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- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
- One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
- Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all…
- But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
- Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
- I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
- All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
- Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
- 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…
- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
- It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
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