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536 Editor Quotes

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Certainly Instruments Lower Most
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Bear Begin Broken Homes
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Could Father Hate Hated
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Exist Final God He
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Nostalgia Used
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Life is a zoo in a jungle

Jungle Life LifeIsA Zoo
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The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Less Like Pay Rich
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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Because Everybody Hates Liked
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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Any Bored Death Go
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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Food Mural Museums Par
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Heart Human HumanHeart Like
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Bites Feeding Hand More
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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
Every ISee IWrite Inspired
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Experience Go Learn School
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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Cookie Diction Like Out
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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Another Earth Primarily Put
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Another Each Enough Like
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Acts Been End God
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Coat Confession Good Only
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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Adult Arrive Before Children
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It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Family Inconsistent Just Our
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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

First Good More Strange
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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

After Day Encounter Every
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Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

Acquainted Mortality Feel Guess
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The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

Students Reading Keeping Everyone
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Detail Discover Examining Level
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When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Away Computer Doing Elsewhere
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You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

Able Account Certainly Exist
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I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Books Certain Editor House
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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Always Books Civility Depth
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Love Emotion Experienced
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Man reserves Deepest love Company
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Love demands Friendship
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Officials Elected Good citizen
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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

Man Love Woman Comfort
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What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than man’s transparency.

What passes Intuition Transparency
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Contradict myself Improve wonderfully
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I drink to make other people interesting.

Drink People interesting
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In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

The theatre Believe Woman Ladies
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Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
Love Emotion Feels Man
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

An optimist Fellow Believe Housefly
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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Test Comedian Laugh Opens
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Man Think Fist Clenched
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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Common sense Privilege World
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Great art Music Loveliness
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward

Life Spent Labor Wasted
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It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Artist Wise Mind Indecent body
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Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art Sex Imagination
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Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Marriage Theory Man discovers Taste
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

An actor Playwright Hole
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