“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”
Death“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
Imagination“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”
Death“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.”
Home“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”
Truth“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
Best“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
Best“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”
Nature“Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”
Great“We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
Anniversary“Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.”
Freedom“Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
Beauty“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
Newyears“You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.”
Truth“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
Happiness“The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.”
Anger“The crown of literature is poetry.”
Poetry“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Age“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.”
Women“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”
Change“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”
Death“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”
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