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 | "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested
and the frog dies of it." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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| "A writer is like a bean plant ? he has his day and then becomes
stringy." | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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| "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he
spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting
her sweetness and respecting her seniority." | |
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Found in the topic Optimism.
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| "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a
car." | |
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Found in the topic Automobiles.
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| "Commuter ? one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A
man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again." | |
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Found in the topic Railroad.
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| "Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men,
but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary
man." | |
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Found in the topic Technology.
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| "We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny.... The most alarming spectacle
today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it
is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of
loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don?t like a
Communist." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of
what it was like to be alive." | |
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Found in the topic Live.
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| "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the
people are fight more than half of the time." | |
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Found in the topic Democracy.
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| "I don?t know which is more discouraging, literature or
chickens." | |
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Found in the topic Discourage.
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| "It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet;
the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other
members." | |
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Found in the topic Club.
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| "A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist ? nothing shields
him from the world"s gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,
can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who
has written a letter is stuck with it for all time." | |
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Found in the topic Letter.
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| "As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one
compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not
desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time." | |
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Found in the topic Begin.
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| "Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and
everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their
ingratitude and false accusations." | |
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Found in the topic Companion.
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