H. L. Mencken Quotes
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
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Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.
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A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.
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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
