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Henry Louis Mencken has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
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As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos…
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The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…
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Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200…
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Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight…
— Amber Benson
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I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about…
— Amanda Plummer
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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little…
— Gary Oldman
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This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves…
— Angela Bassett
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Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.
— Ray Davies
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If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or…
— Ben Kingsley
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Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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