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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel."

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Groucho Marx Actor, Comedian, Writer
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"Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication"

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead."

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