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- I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with…
- We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of…
- There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
- There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.
- Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies,…
- That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
- Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.
- They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they…
- She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by.…
- ... uncritical love is the only real treasure.
- Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.
- The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well…
- Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other…
- The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business…
- I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a…
- If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
- The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
- In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
- I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue…
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that…
- Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a…
- We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
- Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool…
- Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible.…
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