"Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago."
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"Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned."
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"Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have a learned faculty whose job it is to attempt to prevent the incursion of foreign words into the language. I love editing Harry with Arthur Levine, my American editor-the differences between 'British English' (of which there must be at least 200 versions) and 'American English' (ditto!) are a source of constant interest and amusement to me."
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"I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living in western society, people who are not repressed, who are free. We can choose. The things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful."
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"You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care and I'll continue not to bother to brush my hair.' Or you can be a weak-willed person like me and think 'oh I'd better get my act together. And maybe my mother was right and I do need to put my hair back and tidy myself up a bit.' So I did tidy myself up a bit. But I do often resent the amount of time that it takes to pull yourself together to go on TV, I really do. If I sound bitter, then that accurately reflects how I feel about the subject."
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"I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them."
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"To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox."
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"Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities."
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"It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money."
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"Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive."
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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
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"Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick."
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"The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it."
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"Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture."
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"Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?"
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"Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate."
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"Every one is witty for his owne purpose."
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"No man knows he is young while he is young."
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"I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's."
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"I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
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