Erich Segal Quotes
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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I think 'Girls' is pretty brilliant.
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Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
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We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
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We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.
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Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
