Conan O'Brien - Quotes

 All I ask is one thing, and I 

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Arthur C. Clarke - Quotes

 When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 

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W. Somerset Maugham - Quotes

 You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discivered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack. 

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Julian Barnes - Quotes

 Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren 

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Quotes

 If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. 

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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - Quotes

 In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success 

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Milan Kundera - Quotes

 Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good... 

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Terry Pratchett - Quotes

 If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life. 

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Sigmund Freud - Quotes

 In the depths of my heart I can 

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John Irving - Quotes

 Life is serious but art is fun! 

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Jean Anouilh - Quotes

 I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die! 

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Oscar Wilde - Quotes

 A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. 

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Bill Bryson - Quotes

 As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So? 

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Jenny Holzer - Quotes

 If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist. 

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Ambrose Bierce - Quotes

 Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. 

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Joseph Heller - Quotes

 Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed. 

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Michael Crichton - Quotes

 Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth. 

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Dorothy Parker - Quotes

 All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. 

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 The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty, which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism, as saving them trouble & expense.

—Aleister Crowley. 1929-03-09 diary entry. 

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William S. Burroughs - Quotes

 And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. 

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Tom Waits - Quotes

 The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. 

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William Goldman - Quotes

 Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. 

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George Orwell - Quotes

 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not

money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And

though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,

and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could

remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I

bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to

be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money

suffereth long, and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not

itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her

own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in

iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth

all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now

abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these

is money.



I Corinthians xiii (adapted)  

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Mike Royko - Quotes

 Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on. 

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Abdullah Ahmad Badawi - Quotes

 Life  

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Bergen Evans - Quotes

 Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. 

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Samuel Johnson - Quotes

 My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.  

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Fran - Quotes

 No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. 

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Fran - Quotes

 One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. 

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Reza Aslan - Quotes

 A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat. 

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Diana Gabaldon - Quotes

 Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.

--Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie (Echo in the Bone) 

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Peggy Noonan - Quotes

 Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping 

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Afghan Proverb - Quotes

 Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. 

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H.L. Mencken - Quotes

 A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. 

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Mark Twain - Quotes

 Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. 

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Aaron Toll - Quotes

 The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. 

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Ray Bradbury - Quotes

 Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands? 

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Thomas Henry Huxley - Quotes

 Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. 

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