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Irving Layton has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
• Idealist: a cynic in the making.
• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
• Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.
• I have stopped being a misanthrope.
• Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a…
• Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can…
• By walking, I found out where I was going.
• My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
• God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
• Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United…
• I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

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