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"People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying."
"I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie."
"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day"
"Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse"
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below."
"A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie."
"A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment."
"The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs."
"The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones."
"How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?"
"A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time."
"Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them."
"If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle."
"A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way."
"Heaven's my destination."
"Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure."
"He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living."
"The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth."
"For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?"