H. L. Mencken Quotes
By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'
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I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
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People never believe you.
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Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.
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By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally
