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" Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. "

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" Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). "

" The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. "

" The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. "

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" Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? "

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" Discussion in America means dissent. "

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" The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. "

" Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. "

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" I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. "

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" Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! "

" Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. "

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