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Style Quotations
"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." ~ Pablo Picasso
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." ~ Moses Hadas
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." ~ Theodore Rubin
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." ~ Groucho Marx
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." ~ Helen Keller
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." ~ Salvador Dali
"In the theatre of life, you can choose to be an actor, a spectator or a critic. The decision is entirely up to you." ~ Stefan Krause
"I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes" ~ Anthony Trollope
"I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty" ~ Madonna, Entertainer
"Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist has kept her Wonderbra and burnt her brains" ~ Kathy Lette
"If at first you don't succeed then try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." ~ W.C. Fields
"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation" ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"I've never learned anything while I was talking." ~ Larry King
"I’m tired of all this nonsense, about beauty being only skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" ~ Jean Kerr
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." ~ Frank Zappa
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." ~ Will Rogers
"I grew up in Europe, where history comes from." ~ Eddie Izzard
"Nihilism is best done by professionals." ~ Iggy Pop
"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion." ~ Anatole France
"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought." ~ Sir William Osler
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