H. L. Mencken Quotes
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
