H. L. Mencken Quotes
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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I love men who make me laugh.
Nastassja Kinski -
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.
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The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.
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In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final. Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.
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In the beginning, envy is revealed through inappropriate zeal and rivalry, and later by fervour with spite and the blaming of the one who is envied.
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A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
