"A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed."
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"Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one"
"The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work."
"Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it."
"Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out."
"Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof."
"I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am."
"Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone"
"I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover."
"When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter--someone new? Someone better--maybe YOU!"
"Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw."
"I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life."
"The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it."
"Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone."
"San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories."
"There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return"
"We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain."
"Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!"
"I'd have liked to have gone to bed with Jean Harlow. She was a beautiful broad. The fellow who married her was impotent and he killed himself. I would have done the same thing."
"Gone are the birds that were our summer guests."