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-- Charles Du Bos blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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-- Anon. Fan Clubs Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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-- Tom Robbins If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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-- Anonymous Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
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-- H. L. Mencken Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
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-- Frank Zappa The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
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-- Isadora Duncan Fan Clubs Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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