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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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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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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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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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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Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
